Paine, Roxy

Mar 25

Written By The Mom Pop

Roxy Paine

American, (born 1966-)

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Exhibitions

About the Artist

Roxy Paine is a conceptual artist whose work expresses the collision of human industries and the natural world.

Paine’s studio practice has mobilized an incredibly diverse range of subjects and materials, including custom-designed machines that create paintings; pristine wood and metal replicas of trees, fungus, weeds, and tools; full-size wooden dioramas of human-built environments such as a fast food restaurant, a security checkpoint, and an electronic control room. The work conveys various conflicts, such as those between industry and nature, control and chaos, and form and theory. Consistent across all of work is an echo of human involvement despite the noticeable lack of human figures.

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