OFF-SHOOT: Serial Explorations

Nov 2012 – Jun 2013

Claude Monet’s painted waterlilys and haystacks, Eadweard Muybridge’s film-based motion studies, Marcel Duchamp’s multiple readymades of found objects: serial explorations of subject, form, and media has been a hallmark of modern artistic practice since the advent of photography in the…

Yellow Penguin

“We have sought the origins of life in the earth’s oldest natural material, that is petroleum. A black, dense liquid disgorging from the warm womb of Mother Earth, and the natural repository of the planet’s entire history of organic life-forms,…

Floor Module Table

Best known for intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Do Ho Suh draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. To experience the artist’s floor sculptures, viewers are encouraged to walk on surfaces…

Field of Grass

San Francisco-based Ryan Wolfe describes himself as a “device artist and interaction designer” whose works explore spatial and kinetic patterns. Wolfe’s Field of Grass, which spreads across the stairway wall up to the 21c spa, distills and recreates the feel…

Healing Tiles

A new media artist working with cutting-edge science and technology, Brian Knep is artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School, where he works side-by-side with scientists, adapting their tools and techniques to explore alternative meanings and ways of connecting to the world.…

Time Capsule

The site for Brooklyn-based artist Anne Peabody’s commission at 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati is the elevator cabs. To transform these spaces into unique, interactive works of art, Peabody engaged in a process both research- and labor-intensive: she gathered information and…

Refraction

“Refraction is the change in the direction of a wave when it enters a medium, for instance, a ray of light entering water. Hypermnesia is a state of highly developed memory, based on registering experiences by associating them to mentally…

Uros

Uros, a light sculpture by interdisciplinary artist Grimanesa Amorós, is installed  in a corridor just off the lobby gallery, visible from both the elevator lobby and the reception lobby gallery. Part of a series of works originally commissioned by the…

Lightmail

The shimmering, shifting spectrum of color emanating from the nine-story interior solarium is Astrid Krogh’s Lightmail, a three-part fiber optic tapestry woven on a loom in the artist’s Copenhagen studio. Renowned as a leading innovator in the intersecting fields of…

Untitled

As part of 21c’s mission to integrate contemporary art into daily life, thought-provoking works are installed both indoors and out. Adjacent to the Walnut street entrance is Austrian artist Werner Reiterer’s enormous, ornate, brass chandelier, which illuminates and animates the…

Channel Two

As an extension of its mission to make art more accessible, 21c Museum is proud to present Channel Two, a video artwork channel that debuted at opening in 2006. Available for viewing in hotel guest rooms and in the Proof…