Artist
Jennifer SteinkampAmerican, born 1958
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Orbit 11
Date2011
Made inUnited States
MediumSingle-channel video, edition 3/3 + 1 AP
DimensionsDimensions variable
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by contemporary@mfah 2011
Object number2011.1021
Not on view
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Department
Modern and Contemporary ArtObject Type
Jennifer Steinkamp has transformed the landscape of contemporary art through her profoundly beautiful video projections that celebrate the ebb and flow of the natural world. Using digital animation to distill the forces of nature and chart the passage of time, Steinkamp also builds her work around the ways in which light can both define and dematerialize architectural space.
Orbit 11 depicts the celestial mechanics of a fictional planet spinning through the span of one year. Steinkamp fills the foreground with representations of trees seen from below, with their branches, flowers, and leaves blown by turbulent winds. Over time, all four seasons—spring, summer, fall, and winter—follow one another in a rapid cycle of birth, decay, and rebirth. And as the seasons progress, this cycle of nature also becomes one with the heavens above.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
on side of DVD case " Orbit 11, 2011 Jennifer Steinkamp Blu Ray ROM and DVDROM "
in black ink on twelve white discs:
- Orbit 11 '11 DVD ROM
- Orbit 11 '11 DVD ROM (sig)
- Orbit 11 tiffs 1/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 1
- Orbit 11 tiffs 1/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 1
- Orbit 11 tiffs 2/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 2
- Orbit 11 tiffs 2/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 2
- Orbit 11 tiffs 3/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 3
- Orbit 11 tiffs 3/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 3
- Orbit 11 tiffs 4/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 4
- Orbit 11 tiffs 4/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 4
- Orbit 11 tiffs 5/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 5
- Orbit 11 tiffs 5/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 5
in black ink on twelve white discs:
- Orbit 11 '11 DVD ROM
- Orbit 11 '11 DVD ROM (sig)
- Orbit 11 tiffs 1/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 1
- Orbit 11 tiffs 1/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 1
- Orbit 11 tiffs 2/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 2
- Orbit 11 tiffs 2/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 2
- Orbit 11 tiffs 3/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 3
- Orbit 11 tiffs 3/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 3
- Orbit 11 tiffs 4/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 4
- Orbit 11 tiffs 4/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 4
- Orbit 11 tiffs 5/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 5
- Orbit 11 tiffs 5/5 / blu ray com (green ink) 5
outside of DVD case " Orbit 11 / edition 3/3 "
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