Alexander Carver’s kaleidoscopic paintings deal with architectures of pleasure and discipline. Appropriated texts, fragmented information graphics, and lush plants Carver’s paintings form a dense image ecology that develops in close relation to his film and video art. The paintings are populated with mesmerizing braille-like meshes, functioning sometimes as diagrams, spatial coordinates, or appearing like raised pores over the surface of the skin. Carver’s application of techniques such as frottage and silk-screen produce dense, multilayered, and kaleidoscopic compositions, able to warp space and time.