Bad Lawn
Bad Lawn
Artist
Roxy Paine
(born 1966)
Date1998
MediumEpoxy, PVC, polymer, steel, wood, PETG, lacquer, oil paint, and earth
Dimensions48 x 120 x 84 in. (121.9 x 304.8 x 213.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2011.2
Accession number
2011.2
On View
Not on viewLabel TextIn Bad Lawn, Roxy Paine celebrates what many try to control: nature’s unruliness. Rather than a perfect green lawn, this tabletop version of a yard consists of nothing but weeds, scraggly grass, worn areas, and sprouting fungi. Paine crafted each plant in the sculpture from industrial materials, and then meticulously painted them by hand.
In his fictional version of nature, Roxy Paine invites us to reconsider our relationship with nature.
