Many of Brooklyn artist Roxy Paine’s best known sculptural works involve exceedingly accurate replicas of different types of mushrooms and toadstools (most of which are of the hallucinatory or poisonous variety). The intensive amount of labor painstakingly rendered detail that is evident in the fabrication of these works is often almost as astounding as the effect of a field of fungi seemingly erupting fro the floor or wall. Roxy is also known for his ‘art-making machines,’ such as his painting Manufacturing Unit, a mechanism he invented that creates paintings by repeatedly dunking canvases into a vat of paint.

Roxy Paine

2000, Amanita Muscaria Field (detail), polymer, steel, lacquer oil, 162” x 115” x 20”

1999, Scumak Sculpture, 11 x 6 x 10 1/2”

1999, Untitled (scumak sculpture), plastic, 14 x 11 x 7”,

2001, Amanita Virosa Wall #1, 140 x 186”

2001, Dip Paintings, 16 x 13 x 4 1/2”