Internationally acclaimed artist Roxy Paine will discuss his work and his sculpture Symbiosis with Tom Eccles, Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and former Director of the Public Art Fund in New York City.
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About Roxy Paine:
Roxy Paine is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work interrogates reality and artifice. In may 2014, the aPA brought his sculpture Symbiosis to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in cooperation with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. The sculpture is part of Paine's "Dendroid" series of stainless steel tree-like structures evoking the tension and fusion of organic and industrial elements and forms. Symbiosis was installed courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery.
About Tom Eccles:
Tom Eccles is the Executive Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and was the Director of the Public Art Fund in New York City from 1996-2005. Eccles has organized numerous exhibitions and projects around the world. The New York Times has referred to him as a "provocateur," whose blend of "impudence, ebullience and inventiveness" has made him a significant thinker and curator.
Photo: Symbiosis (2011, installed 2014) by artist Roxy Paine. Photo by James Ewing Photography © 2014.
