The Boston Globe, May 7th, 2002
Artist and provocateur Roxy Paine's show "Second Nature," at the Rose Art Museum, dazzles on so many levels it will appeal to toddlers as well as art connoisseurs. One humming piece of machinery produces shiny goops of color; another contraption spews paint; and art on the wall mimicking dry rot and toxic mushrooms has a weirdly repulsive allure. For all its visceral appeal, Paine's work succeeds because it pushes past traditional boundaries by which we define art. He addresses questions not just of art but of nature, science, and culture, and the systems we use to organize and understand them...
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