Roxy Paine was educated at both the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York.
19 Facts About Roxy Paine
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Roxy Paine's most reviewed exhibitions include Replicants, Machines, Dendroids, and Dioramas.
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Roxy Paine was born in New York City and raised in the suburbs of northern Virginia.
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Roxy Paine describes his experience of growing up in suburbia as a "twisted vision of nature", his environment possessing an "overwhelming blandness".
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Around age 13 or 14, Roxy Paine used his local creek as a place to explore.
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At age 15, Roxy Paine ran away to California to live with his brother, a hiker and rock climber.
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Roxy Paine moved to New Mexico and enrolled at the College of Santa Fe, but he soon dropped out due to poor relations with his professors.
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Roxy Paine then moved to New York and attended Pratt Institute for a time, originally as a painting major but later switching to sculpture.
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Roxy Paine eventually dropped out of Pratt, and with help from some of his colleagues, formed the artist collective Brand Name Damages in 1989.
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Roxy Paine began showing his work in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1990 and 1991 at an artist run collective called Brand Name Damages and he had his first solo exhibition at the short-lived Herron Test-Site in October 1992.
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From this point onward, Roxy Paine's work separated into a few distinct but nevertheless related categories.
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Roxy Paine uses both mechanical means and the innate logic of natural forms to create his "Dendroid" tree-like sculptures.
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Roxy Paine has gone on to create 25 of these sculptures, including Bluff, 2002, which premiered in New York's Central Park during the Whitney Biennial in 2002, and the very ambitious Conjoined, 2007, recently on display in Manhattan's Madison Square Park.
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Roxy Paine creates two different fictional tree species where each branch from one tree joins with a branch from the other.
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In September 2013 Roxy Paine debuted the first two installations of a new series of work utilizing large-scale dioramas.
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Christian Viveros-Faune, in an interview with Roxy Paine, discussed Roxy Paine's interests in the Japanese philosophical aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi, which emphasizes the beauty within natural and unpredictable flaws.
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Roxy Paine told Viveros-Faune of an interest in Poststructuralism and the theories of Michel Foucault on Episteme, as described by Roxy Paine-.
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Roxy Paine further discussed his interest in the new work as a manifestation of "A copy of a copy of a copy," which could be connected Foucault's fellow poststructuralist, Jean Baudrillard.
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The artist Roxy Paine contributed many of his works to the following locations:.