A stunning new monograph dedicated to recent work by American artist Pat Steir, counted among the great innovators of contemporary painting.
This illustrated monograph features the most recent paintings by renowned American artist Pat Steir (b. 1938). Recognized for her iconic 'Waterfall' paintings of poured and cascaded paint that challenge and transcend the divide between figuration and abstraction, Steirs enduringly original paintings, drawings, prints, and installations have been exhibited internationally since the early 1960s. This book encompasses a generative period of the eighty-seven-year-old artists paintings, which included her largest installation to dateorganized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.where Steir transformed the museums circular gallery into an immersive 'Color Wheel.' A transcript of a conversation between the artist and curator Evelyn C. Hankins is published here, alongside images of Steirs innovative exhibition. In 2019 the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, presented Steirs site-specific installation, 'Silent Secret Waterfalls.' This suite of lyrical paintings evoking wind and water is also memorialized in this book, which opens with a poetic reflection from award-winning author Colm Tóibín on this remarkable chapter of Steirs art.
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A stunning new monograph dedicated to recent work by American artist Pat Steir, counted among the great innovators of contemporary painting.
8 Night, Colm Tóibín
20 Pat Steir: Paintings, 20182025
198 Pat Steir in Conversation with Evelyn C. Hankins on Color Wheel
262 Biography, Exhibition History, and Bibliography
Evelyn C. Hankins is head curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Pat Steir first came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. By the late 1980s, her inventive approach to paintingthe rigorous pouring technique seen in her Waterfall works, in which she harnessed the forces of gravity and gesture to achieve works of astonishing lyricismattracted substantial critical acclaim. Informed by a deep engagement with art history and Eastern philosophy, and a passion for artistic advocacy in the both the visual and literary realms, Steirs storied five-decade career continues to reach new heights through an intrepid commitment to material exploration and experimentation.
Colm Tóibín is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.
