The sculpture was funded through the Art Enrichment Ordinance at a cost of $1,456,000.
May 142023
Yerba Buena/Moscone Muni Station
Node by Roxy Pain
Node is by New York artist Roxy Paine. Paine describes the eight-ton sculpture as an “enormous bio-industrial rhizomatic organism” and “an elegant line connecting earth to sky, people to underground systems and sculpture to city.”
I have been a huge fan of Roxy Paine’s and have seen many of his sculptures throughout the US, including Dendroids in Philadelphia. It is time San Francisco has a representation of his work.
Paine is a contemporary American artist best known for his tree-like structures he calls Dendroids. “I’m interested in taking entities that are organic and outside of the industrial realm, feeding them into an industrial system, and seeing what results from that force-feeding.” Paine was born in New York, NY, in 1966 and attended the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico before returning to New York to study at the Pratt Institute