Philadelphia – February 2018
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
24th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
This piece, titled Symbiosis by Roxy Paine, was installed in 2014. It is stainless steel and part of Paine’s “Dendroid” series of stainless steel treelike structures. “Dendroids”is a greek word that combines Dendron meaning tree and oid a suffix meaning form.
The piece is 34 feet tall and is hand-fabricated from thousands of pieces of pipe, plate and rods, welded and polished to create these two forms that weigh and buttress each other.
Roxy Paine was born in New York City in 1966. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York.
The piece was acquired by the Association for Public art through a grant from the Daniel W. Dietrich II Trust.
