Alex Tosti makes plans and then lets them break. A grid is laid, structure is prepared, order is established, and then pigment is poured and everything shifts. Paint spills past edges, tape lifts in unexpected patterns, cracks appear where smoothness was intended. Tosti doesn't correct these moments. She responds to them. The finished painting holds both the plan and everything that interrupted it— which turns out to be exactly how most meaningful things take shape. Alex Tosti’s work is an ongoing study in process and uncertainty. Each painting begins with intention: a grid, a structure, a repeated plan. Surfaces are built carefully, with layers masked, measured, and prepared to hold balance and order.Pours are central to Tosti’s practice. Pigment moves across the surface in ways that cannot be fully directed - spilling beyond edges, pooling, shifting, and interrupting the underlying structure. Tape lifts paint in unexpected patterns. Cracks appear. Gradients form. These moments alter the course of the painting, requiring adjustment rather than correction.The work reflects a dialogue between planning and response. What begins as control becomes adaptation, and the final image carries evidence of both. Over time, this approach has become a way of thinking through experience - how identity, memory, and understanding take shape gradually, shaped by change rather than fixed outcomes.The finished paintings hold traces of structure and movement, order and interruption. They mark a process where unpredictability is not resisted, but integrated—allowing each work to arrive at its own form.Represented by Illumine Gallery. Please inquire for commissions and shipping options.