Artist:  Jennifer Steinkamp
Title: Left Humerus
Date:  2008
Dimensions:   size and aspect ratio variable, each wall approximately 13 feet wide x 10 feet high.
Image Credit:  Robert Wedemeyer, courtesy ACME., Los Angeles, greengrassi, London, and Lehmann Maupin, New York.
Exhibition History: 

1. ACME, Los Angeles, CA, May 29 - June 28, 2008.
2. Confines Valencia 09, IVAM, Valencia, Spain, curated by Aaron Betsky,  May 28 - November 15, 2009.

Description:  In 2008, the Getty Museum commissioned me to create a site-specific work for its building designed by Richard Meier. The work titled, Oculus Sinister, transformed an oculus architectural detail. Translated from the Latin meaning eye; this architectural detail refers to an eye of god. This work makes reference to the Getty Villa on the coast of California and the Villa of the Papyri that was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. By utilizing pyroclastic imagery stretched over time and space to represent God's body I have expanded this notion to include another body part, the Left Humerus or elbow set in architectural space.

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