Arts [Artist] Pat Steir

2011.01.08 05:32

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Pat Steir, American, born 1940 ~

Summer Moon, 2005 - Oil on canvas - 278,1 x 348 cm

Painter, printmaker Pat Steir is a painter and draftsman of words, letters, signs and
symbolic marks, drips and spills applied to paper and canvas.

Steir, who now lives in New York City and Amsterdam, was born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey,
growing up in a Jersey suburb of Philadelphia. Immersed in a study of the arts and philosophy as a girl,
Steir continued her interests at Boston University and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Both institutions have since honored Steir: Boston University in 2001 with a Distinguished Alumni Award,
Pratt in 1991 with an honorary doctorate.

Since her first exposition in New York in 1964 at the gallery Terri Dintenfass,
Pat Steir has created a broad spectrum of paintings all born from her pouring technique which has been refined to the point of virtuosity :
layers of paintings placed as successive veils whose meditative silence is reminiscent of Agnes Martin pictorial space.

The art of Pat Steir resides in the delicately equilibrated interplay between the force of gravity and
the properties of the paint,for its quantity, consistency and substance determine the fragile oscillation between deliberate control and chance occurrence.

With this technique, Pat Steir works with what she calls herself the “nature of painting”
and uses her body as a Kyudo arch or as a compass in order to better express the work
from a central axis, an internal center from which a lived experience gives birth to spatialisation.

Her work is inspired by a profound interest in Renaissance Painting - some of her canvases recall
the dazzling colors or magnificent golds of sublime works by Fra Angelico, Lippi or Giotto.
Also she has great knowledge of Abstract Expressionism,
Chinese paintings from the Tang & Song Dynasty, as well as skills of “Yi-pin” techniques of “ink-splashing”
from the 8th and 9tth century where free-form ink splatterings created abstract forms evocative of freedom and perfect control of the material.

The ten recent paintings gathered in the exhibition create a radiant and mystical beauty
which evokes a silence close to the Origin, the “zero point” where everything started.

SMALL MIXED MARKS 2004-06Oil on canvas7 feet x 5 feet

Berlin Waterfalls (Night Swing),1993

Waterfall 1990

WATERFALL OF FUNDIMENTS 1990Oil on canvas92 1/2 x 132 inches

July Waterfall, 1991. Oil on canvas, 102 1/4 × 116 1/8 in. (259.7 × 295 cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Pat Steir's "Ghost Moon,2004

San Francisco Waterfall

Pat Steir at Crown Point Press

Pat Steir "Gravity and Levity" Recent Paintings at CHEIM & READ

Data from Internet, Webpage by Sukjoo, January 8, 2011

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2011.01.08 10:41

The first thing that came up to my mind is "drip" and "rain".
I would call her "Mrs. Drip". ㅎ, ㅎ, ㅎ.
Rain can be beautiful and the feeling I get from these paintings
seems to come from imaginations related to rain and shower.

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이한중*65

2011.01.08 12:48

I used like reading Beethoven's writings, which are not many.
Then I like to read what painters are saying about their works and
the philosophical concepts or the spiritual background behind their works.

This lady, what I heard from Sukjoo, has had extensive studies of
eastern philosophies and others and calls herself a conceptual artist.
As our webmaster noticed, here she likes water dripping, popping and falling
and so on.
Whatever she is doing with all that, they seem to make me feel good.

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