Pat Steir, Blue, 2004
Edition 2/40, 10 color screen-print
56 1/2 x 43 inches
Our focus print for Friday, November 12, 2010 is Blue, 56" x 43" screen print by Pat Steir created in 2004 and published by Pace Prints. The work is currently on display at Garvey Simon Art Access as part of the gallerie's Pat Steir exhibition, on display from October 9 to November 27, 2010.
Pat Steir is an accomplished painter, printmaker and conceptual artist working in New York and Amsterdam. Blue is a work from her waterfall series, a subject she has been doing to great acclaim since 1985. The large size of this print gives the viewer a taste of just how powerful Steir's prints and paintings can be. Steir's use of white against plush stratified blues creates vivid water imagery. The viewer can feel the intensity and force of a waterfall and the related spray.
Although Steir's pour imagery has been paired with the stain and action painters such as Jackson Pollock, Steir 's technique is clearly different in that she lets nature have a hand in the process. The paint is allowed to flow free form down a vertically positioned canvas. She employs a similar technique in her printmaking.
2010 has been a banner year for Steir. Her work has been the subject of several major exhibitions on both coasts.
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