James von Minor is a Maryland-based artist who is internationally known for his paintings, drawings, constructions, and sculptural installations. In his work, abstract, organic forms integrate into geometric patterns and shapes. These seemingly opposite styles depend on a delicate juggling act of balance, shape, color, and pattern. Humans are predisposed to look for dualities as an organizing principle; for every idea there is a counter idea. But von Minor suggests that this is an artificial concept in need of deconstructing. He has dedicated his lengthy career to uncovering ways to move beyond the limitations of that dualitybased thinking. The inspiration for his work is the Islamic architecture of southern Spain in which strict, rational, logical geometries are coupled with decorative, organic calligraphy and plant forms. In his work, von Minor unifies concept and experience, as well as the geometric and organic. In addition, the artist questions the nature of painting, drawing, and sculpture. Most of his work merges qualities of all these classical approaches: the paintings are sculptural, sculptures are painterly, etc. von Minor blurs these boundaries to construct a new union of pattern and organic abstraction.