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Pat Steir

Pat Steir

With a storied career spanning more than five decades, Pat Steir is a trailblazing presence in contemporary painting. She was one of the relatively few women who came to prominence in the New York art scene of the 1970s, initially pairing iconic images and texts to interrogate the nature of representation. In the mid-1980s, inspired by East Asian art and philosophy, she adopted a looser, more performative approach to painting. Harnessing the forces of gravity and gesture, she developed techniques of pouring, splashing, and brushing thinned paint onto canvas, often working at a monumental scale.