Jennifer
Steinkamp
Los Angeles, CA
Steinkamp’s work has single-handedly changed the course of video animation. An expert in computer rendering, Steinkamp’s projects often take the form of portals or liminal spaces that beckon toward an expanded visual reality. Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains, a large-scale outdoor installation, was on view along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, from October 2017 through March 2018. Her site-specific project for Kansas City, visible only at night, will take place at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Viewing Hours:
Retinal is projected on the exterior of the Lens Event Room at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art during the evening.
The projections are visible from the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park and Rockhill Road.
Dusk to Midnight (8 p.m. - Midnight)
Jennifer Steinkamp
Retinal
Medium: Projections
Steinkamp’s art has single-handedly changed the course of video animation, particularly the use of video to transform the exterior surfaces of architectural structures and urban spaces. An expert in computer rendering, Steinkamp’s projects often take the form of portals or liminal spaces that beckon toward an expanded visual reality ostensibly hidden behind the projection surface. At the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Steinkamp’s two-part artistic intervention, visible at night from Rockhill Road and the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Garden, offers a poetic interpretation of the word lens — the architect’s name for the two illuminated, opaque buildings added to the museum in recent years. As with her Winter Fountains, a large-scale outdoor installation on view along Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia from October 2017 through March 2018, Steinkamp proposes a visual reality in which solid forms and surfaces appear to give way to a lively, sinuous world of rich and colorful fantasy.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Viewing Hours:
Retinal is projected on the exterior of the Lens Event Room at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art during the evening.
The projections are visible from the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park and Rockhill Road.
Dusk to Midnight (8 p.m. - Midnight)
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