Sentence examples for dendroid from inspiring English sources
adjective
Resembling a shrub or tree.
The indument includes such diverse types of epidermal emergences as simple glands (unbranched one- to several-celled hairs with a headlike cluster of secretory terminal cells), simple (unbranched) nonglandular hairs; dendroid hairs (branching filaments), and scales (flat cell plates) of many patterns.
As with Mr. Paine's Dendroid series, these art-making machines and mushroom fields are based on analyzing the visual language of the thing he's replicating, establishing a set of parameters, then finding as much variation as possible within those rules.
ROXY PAINE'S stainless-steel Dendroid sculptures seem straightforward enough at first, clearly recognizable as treelike forms.
"Distillation," the most complex and immersive in his series of 22 Dendroids, is now barreling through the James Cohan Gallery in New York.
Each one of his Dendroids is made from standard industrial piping — the kind typically used by the pharmaceutical industry and nuclear power plants — that Mr. Paine bends, welds, grinds and polishes into seamless organic forms.
Disassembled Dendroids awaiting future installation are splayed out in the surrounding fields, their antlerlike steel components blinding in a strong sun, and beautifully moody in cloudy light.
Mr. Paine's Dendroids are never really just about trees.
