Jennifer Steinkamp

Above: Daisy Bell, 2008

"Melding aspects of computer animation, video art, abstract painting, structuralist cinema, and architecture, Jennifer Steinkamp creates ravishing abstract and figurative projections that reside in the realm between the physical and the virtual. Technology plays a major role in her art, however it never takes precedence over the desired aesthetic effect. Her computer is the equivalent of oil paint, palette, and brushes. Inspired by the work of light-and-space artists such as James Turrell and Robert Irwin, she strives to erase the boundary between viewer and object, constructing environments that defy materiality, encouraging total immersion. These installations acknowledge the human body by creating disorienting effects, manipulating the senses, overwhelming with movement, effecting a range of responses from delight and awe to something bordering on vertigo. Steinkamp explores the nature of human sensory experience through her phenomenological installations, using light, motion, and sound to dematerialize and activate space." - JoAnne Northrup, Jennifer Steinkamp, Selections. The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection. 2004






More Videos and information can be found on her website: http://www.jsteinkamp.com
Current Exhibition: September 7 - October 18th, 2008 @ Lehmann Maupin, (201 Chrystie Street, New York, NY)

WALTZ WITH BASHIR - Trailer

The following excerpt is from this article at Cannes Review:
Waltz with Bashir documents the struggle of the filmmaker, Ari Folman, to come to terms with the gaps in his memory surrounding the part he played in the first Lebanese war and the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in the West Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Where Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (to which this film will be inevitably, if somewhat inaccurately, compared) used stark black-and-white animation based on Satrapi's graphic novels to tell the history of one girl growing up during the Iranian revolution, Waltz with Bashir uses vivid, hand-drawn animation to bring to life interviews Folman conducted with friends who were involved in the Lebanese war in the early 1980s to bring to life harrowing memories of death, guilt and regret.

Cliff Evans / After Effects

Cliff Evans’s Empyrean

I was lucky enough to see Cliff Evan's Empyrean on display at LUXE gallery in New York over the summer. I had no idea what I was getting into when I entered the gallery but after spending about 15 minutes watching the video, I left the gallery in a completely different mood than when I had walked in. I was really moved and disturbed by the work. Also I was excited about the powerful and fairly untapped resource of After Effects. The video was dense, layered, extremely well crafted, complicated, political, witty, dark, beautiful and horrible. In other words it consisted of the stuff that makes up a great work of art. He had thrown in everything but the kitchen sink and made it flow seamlessly and with intention. Please visit his site for more amazing work and video: http://www.cliffevans.net/cliffevans/home.html

Cliff Evans’s Empyrean

“Fast-moving images surround and bombard us in every part of our lives as never before,” says Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, who invited Evans to live and work at the museum in 2006. “Evans takes complex, recognizable images –commercial logos, pop and religious icons, etc. – and manipulates them using rhythm, motion, and time to create complex juxtapositions that pull the viewer in. Once engaged, the viewer is obliged by the sound, the beauty, and the horror of the animated, highly focused images to look more closely and to watch as a strong political and social critique emerges. It is there, and it is vitriolic.”

Robert Crumb @ ICA Thursday Sept 4th 6-8pm

The ICA will be having it's Fall reception, free to the public this Thursday including the following artists:

Douglas Blau-First Floor
R. Crumb-Second Floor
Kate Gilmore-Project Space
Odili Donald Odita: Third Space-Ramp Project


More ICA Events for this fall listed here