Roxy Paine at Ronald Feldman.(Brief Article)

From: Art in America | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: Cash, Stephanie | Copyright information

It wouldn't be incorrect to say that Roxy Paine's work is about nature, just misleading. Using polymer, rubber, aluminum and epoxy, he painstakingly creates realistic sculptures of the natural world, such as fields of psilocybin mushrooms or poison ivy. His shows usually also include some sort of machine that mocks the notion of originality and the artist's "hand." One, for example, created monochrome works by repeatedly dipping a canvas into a vat of paint. Paine's juxtaposition o...

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