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Lehmann Maupin is hosting Jennifer Steinkamp’s “Impeach” at its 536 West 22nd Street location in New York. The show runs through April 13, 2019.
The exhibition features four video installations by Los Angeles-based artist Steinkamp.
“A pioneer in the field of 3D animation, Steinkamp works exclusively in digital media, using computer technology to render organic and abstract forms in motion,” the gallery says.
These installations are projected on a large-scale and respond to the architectural space in which they appear resulting in altering the viewer’s experience of space and time.
At the center of the exhibition is Steinkamp’s “Impeach” (2019). It was previously exhibited as a billboard in “Jam, The Billboard Creative,” in 2017. It was a public art project organized by Mona Kuhn and Alex Prager in Los Angeles. Here the artwork comes to life for the first time as a digital animation. A mash-up of stage diving fruits, especially peaches, throwing themselves against an invisible wall, “the work hints at the possibility of a new spring for America should the titular political and legal process be set in motion, as well as the destruction left in the wake,” the gallery informs.
Another artwork featured in the exhibition is “Blind Eye 3,” (2018). It is one of a suite of animations that is inspired by the landscape surrounding the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, which also was the site for a major show by the artist in 2018. “The title references what its like to see with an eye closed and the characteristic ocular scars that are left behind when branches fall from a tree, somewhat resembling an uncanny gaze,” the gallery adds.
The artwork is also a nod to famous precedents in the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Vincent van Gogh. It is also emblematic of Steinkamp’s consistent application of art-historical reference.
“Impeach” is a reminder of the breadth and ambition of Steinkamp’s practice, and the “important historical position she holds as one of the first artists to experiment with constructing imagery — including color, texture, and movement — by wholly digital means.”
Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958, Denver, Colorado) is an American artist. She received her BFA and MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, in 1989 and 1991 respectively and also received an honorary Ph.D. in 2011. Her solo exhibitions have been held at The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2018); Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO (2017); and Portland Art Museum, OR (2017), among others. Steinkamp lives and works in Los Angeles.
The exhibition runs through April 13, 2019, at Lehmann Maupin, 536 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA.
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