BALTIMORE.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the exhibit Front Room: Dan Steinhilber through February 18, 2007. This fall, the first gallery of the West Wing for Contemporary Art becomes an experimental project space for a variety of dynamic art experiences, from site-specific installations by individual artists to thematic exhibitions that incorporate objects from the Museum's outstanding collection of contemporary art. Washington, D.C.,-based artist Dan Steinhilber, best known for combining disposable objects into intriguing sculptures and installations, initiates the space with a new work created specifically for the site—a mesmerizing kinetic sculpture made of Styrofoam packing peanuts set into motion by industrial fans and leaf blowers.

Dan Steinhilber (b. 1972) uses everyday materials--soda bottles, garbage bags, and clothes hangers to make his sculptures. The first solo museum exhibition for Steinhilber, was held at the Hishorn Museum, who explores light and shape by filling plastic tubing, bottles, bubble wrap and other receptacles with such translucent and colorful liquids as duck sauce, dish soap, and soda pop and by stacking objects, including paint rollers, plastic cups, and Styrofoam food containers. This was also the first time since the Hirshhorn initiated its one-person “Directions” shows in 1987 that the series brought an installation to the museum lobby.