In 2004, a work titled Breach by Roxy Paine was installed on the campus of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln as an addition to the sculpture collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. It is an "asymetrical form with broken branches and limbs that bend back in close proximity to one another . . ., appears scared, perhaps damaged by lightning or high wind. And, in sporting both fungus that indicates a weakened state and healthy branches, Breach can be seen as being about both life and death."

The work is intended to encourage meditation and thoughts about the relationship of human beings to nature and is "simultaneously part of the landscape and antithetical to that landscape. . .also stimulates thought on the natural and the artificial, and the extent to which the campus landscape is also a human intervention."

Paine created the trunk in Brooklyn and assembled the branches from thousands of pieces of stainless steel and tubing in his studio in upstate New York. The parts were shipped to the University campus and assembled by the artist.


Source:
Campus Journal, University of Nebraska, September 2004

The following is from the artist, ROXY PAINE, who lives and works in New York City and upstate New York

Education

19871988 Pratt Institute, New York, NY

1986 College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1999 Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

1998 Musee D'Art Americain Giverny, Giverny, France, traveling exhibition to Lunds Kunsthall, Lund, Sweden

Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1992 Herron Test-Site, Brooklyn, NY

1991 Horns, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY

Selected Honor

1997 Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT