Pat Steir: Paintings 2018 – 2025
Press Release
A stunning new monograph dedicated to recent work by American artist Pat Steir, counted among the great innovators of contemporary painting.
June 2025 (Gallery Release)
September 2025 (Trade Release)
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, Steir’s 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 artist’s paintings, which included her largest installation to date—organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.—where Steir transformed the museum’s 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 Steir’s innovative exhibition.
In 2019 the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, presented Steir’s 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 Steir’s art.
An exhibition of Steir’s new paintings is on view at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse from 13 June – 13 September 2025, followed by a solo presentation on July 9 at Hauser & Wirth New York, Wooster Street.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1938, Pat Steir is among the great innovators of contemporary painting. She 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 painting—the pouring technique seen in her Waterfall series, in which she harnessed the forces of gravity and gesture to achieve works of astonishing lyricism—attracted substantial critical acclaim. Informed by a deep engagement with art history and Eastern philosophy, and a passion for artistic advocacy in both the visual and literary realms, Steir’s storied five-decade career.
Pat Steir: Paintings 2018 – 2025
English
Hardcover
31 x24cm
264pp
Text by Colm Tóbín
978-3-907493-14-4
£60.00 / $70.00 / €65.00
About Hauser & Wirth Publishers
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