roxy paine

New York-based artist Roxy Paine makes computer-driven machines that mechanically produce paintings and sculptures; he also creates hand-crafted replications of nature that are startlingly realistic. His work toys with assumptions about nature vs. culture and organic vs. artificial; it often confounds the distinction between the man-made and the natural.
His lifelike mushroom sculptures, life-size stainless-steel trees and machine-made art have been exhibited worldwide, including in the original Greater New York show at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center in 2000, and the Whitney Biennial in 2002.