Jennifer Steinkamp
Happy Happy,
1997
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Jennifer Steinkamp
at Bravin Post Lee
Jan. 4-Feb. 1, 1997
California artist Jennifer Steinkamp managed to hold center
stage in New York with the exciting projection works she
presented in this show. Her installation titled Happy Happy has
to be one of the most innovative examples of the genre.
Accompanied by electronic music by Grain, computer-
generated animation projected by two laser disk players fills
the entire back wall of the darkened gallery space. An
undulating field of colorful explosions and energetic, tangled
lines incorporate the silhouettes of viewers as they walk
toward the wall, blocking one of the projections. The piece has
the effect of totally enfolding the viewer in another world, the
virtual reality of the artist's imagination.
In the back room was a somewhat more tame, but no less
enthralling film projection piece in which black lines animate a
corner of the room. They change form in rapid-fire succession
from flat grids to architectonic structures. In these dazzling
works, Steinkamp could be offering a preview of 21st century
art.
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