Pat Steir

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Pat Steir, 2014

Pat Steir (born April 10, 1940 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American painter, concept and installation artist .

Career

Pat Steir studied printing technology at the Pratt Institute from 1956 to 1962 and painting and comparative literature at the Boston University College of Fine Arts until 1960 . Her teachers Richard Lindner and Philip Guston had a great influence on her and encouraged her to find her own way. The reading of Voltaire and Leibniz influenced her work.

1964 Steir took part in the exhibition "Drawings" in the Museum of Modern Art . Her first solo exhibition took place in 1964 in the Terry-Dintenfass-Galerie in New York, while she was working as an illustrator and book designer . Pat Steir was Artistic Director of Harper & Row from 1965 to 1969 and worked for the feminist magazines Printed Matter , Heresies and Semio-Text . In the 1970s she worked with letters, numbers, symbols and images.

Pat Steir was in contact with Sol LeWitt , Lawrence Weiner and other conceptual artists. She visited Agnes Martin every summer in New Mexico for 30 years and met John Cage in 1980 . Steir also knows Joan Snyder, Mary Heilmann , Robert Mangold , Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Elizabeth Murray and Brice Marden .

Pat Steir traveled to Japan and China several times and worked on woodcuts in China with Kathan Brown and regional printers .

In addition to the waterfall pictures, several of which were exhibited at documenta IX , Steir is also working on installations.

Waterfall (1987-2000)

The paintings in the Waterfall series are large-format (up to 11 meters wide). Standing on a ladder, Steir uses an oversaturated brush to apply liquid paint, water or solvent to a canvas attached to the wall, not stretched on a stretcher frame. The liquids flowing downwards create traces of color, creating the illusion of a waterfall or a cascade . Well-known works are Sixteen Waterfalls of Dreams (1990), Double Dragon Waterfall (1992) and Winter Sky by (2002).

Steir comments on her work as follows: “the paint itself makes the picture…. Gravity makes the image./ The color itself makes the painting…. Gravity makes the picture ”.

Collections (selection)

Pat Steir's work is represented in internationally renowned collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Museum of Modern Art , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC, and the Tate Gallery in London.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Pat Steir by Thomas McEvilley, 1995 Harry N. Abrams (English) ISBN 978-0-8109-4459-6
  • Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line by Jan Howard, Susan Harris 2010 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (English) ISBN 978-0-615-34382-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13th-20th September 1992 - catalog in three volumes; P. 225 Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 .
  2. ↑ a b American art, The Phillips Collection Biography Pat Steir (1940–) accessed on June 27, 2015 (English).
  3. ↑ magical secrets - The Printmaking Community, Rachel Lyon Pat Steir, accessed on June 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ MoMA The Collection, Pat Steir About the artist, accessed on June 27, 2015 (English).
  5. ^ Art in Amerika, Carrie Moyer Pat Steir, accessed on June 27, 2015 (English).
  6. ^ A b The Brooklyn Rail, Sharon L. Butler Pat Steir, The Nearly Endless Line, accessed on June 27, 2015.
  7. ^ Bomb magazine , Anne Waldman Pat Steir, accessed on June 27, 2015 (English).
  8. ↑ Metropolitan Museum - The Collection Online: Sixteen Waterfalls of Dreams, Memories, and Sentiment. Accessed June 27, 2015 (English).
  9. ↑ Crown Point Press Biographical Summary Pat Steir ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 27, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.crownpoint.com
  10. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "S" / Steir, Pat NA 2006 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 15, 2015). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  11. ↑ Cheim Read: Pat Steir accessed on June 27, 2015 (English).
  12. ↑ Locks Gallery, Pat Steir ( Memento from March 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Steir, Pat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, concept and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey