%C2%A9 Roxy Paine
Study No. 1 for “New Amalgam”, 2016
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Black ink on paperexpand_more
The Richard Lewis Hillstrom Fundexpand_more 2018.79.1
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Roxy Paine’s interdisciplinary artistic practice explores the intersection of nature and technology, posing existential questions about the growing conflict between natural and manmade environments. This ink drawing is a study for a stainless-steel sculpture, New Amalgam (2017), part of his long-running Dendroid series of artificially engineered treelike forms that mirror nature but retain their industrial artifice. At first, the drawing appears to depict a simple leafless tree, but as its title suggests, the “tree” is actually an amalgam of various dissimilar branches, each having distinct physical characteristics and growth habits. Though it displays a certain sublime beauty, this fictive tree illustrates the contradiction between natural and artificial structures, revealing the artist’s ambivalent feelings about tampering with nature.
Details
- Title
- Study No. 1 for “New Amalgam”
- Artist Life
- born 1966
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2018.79.1
- Provenance
- The artist, New York; (Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York); (Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis); sold to MIA, 2018
- Curator Approved
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