Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie St
212.254.0054
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Jennifer Steinkamp, Left Clavicle, Courtesy Lehmann Maupin
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Sep 7, 2008 – Nov 1, 2008
Wednesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
Sundays (noon–6pm)
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In her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp explores the shadowy relationship between nature, technology, and God. The exhibit's titular song was synthesized by a computer in 1962, and later used to dramatize the degradation of the supercomputer Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Steinkamp's floor-to-ceiling video projections similarly mimic natural forms and pervert them into imposed, often unsettling, order. The title piece has a rock-like texture, but also an eerie, almost space-age glow. Steinkamp's poisonous flowers, meanwhile, simultaneously resemble seething microorganisms and jewelry, while her video piece Left Clavicle uses roiling, lava-like strokes of synthetic-looking color to reference the body of God.
