Gagosian opens an exhibition of new and recent works by Pat Steir

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Gagosian opens an exhibition of new and recent works by Pat Steir
Pat Steir, Roman Rainbow, 2021–22, oil on canvas, 108 × 108 inches (274.3 × 274.3 cm) © Pat Steir. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.



ROME.- Gagosian is presenting Pat Steir: Paintings, an exhibition of new and recent works by the renowned American painter. Opening at Gagosian Rome on March 10, 2022, this is her first solo exhibition with the gallery.

With a storied career spanning more than five decades, Pat Steir is a trailblazing presence in contemporary painting. She was one of the 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. However, 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. Influenced in part by John Cage’s embrace of chance operations as a compositional strategy in music, and informed by Chinese ink painting and calligraphy, and Zen Buddhist and Daoist thought, among other rich and diverse artistic and literary sources, Steir has evolved an intuitive and mindful rejoinder to the innovations of postwar abstraction. In her latest works, with their bold forays into new chromatic territories, she continues to further her painterly investigations with regard to the roles of intention and improvisation, process and perception in pictorial structure.

The works on view in Rome extend the systematic experimentation that Steir catalyzed in Color Wheel (2019), a suite of thirty large-scale paintings exploring binary color dynamics, commissioned by and presented at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC from the fall of 2019 to the summer of 2021. In addition to vibrant hues that generate unexpected nuance through layering and juxtaposition, Steir also continues to work in elemental white and black. Painting on a black ground that is itself poured in layers and then delineated by traced lines to receive its eventful opposite, One Afternoon (2021–22), Raindrop (2020), and Night (2021–22) present a dramatic range of outcomes. One Afternoon features a cascade that fills the full width and height of the canvas with light and motion; Raindrop is structured with tiers of paint falls, spaced in a rhythmic sequence; and the vast, dark expanse of Night is punctuated by a single linear interval from which descend ghostly rivulets. Steir continues and intensifies this last approach in two polychromatic works that evoke seasonal light conditions: Winter Evening (2021–22),with its electric harmonies of orange, lavender, blue, and red, and Winter Daylight (2021–22), with its streaming bands and layers of many colors.

Rome holds many memories for Steir, including the important 2003 exhibition D’acqua e d’aria (Water and Air) at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. Roman Rainbow (2021–22), a large-scale painting that Steir made expressly to mark the current exhibition, conjures the sensations of the city, raising the temperature with layered spills of orange, yellow, and blue over a glowing red ground. In direct contrast, Small Rainbow (2021–22) features secondary hues of saturated violet, orange, and green that assert themselves against the work’s pulsating blue ground. A suite of tall, vertical paintings—Red Pour, Yellow Pour, and Blue Pour (all 2021–22)—is Steir’s bold response to Barnett Newman’s polemical series Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue (1966–70): each features a single column of saturated primary color poured straight down the center of the blackened canvas. Pat Steir is not afraid.










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