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Pat Steir

PAT STEIR

Mirage Hauser & Wirth 9 July–15 August 2025 New York, Wooster Street
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This Summer at Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street gallery, Pat Steir will present ‘Mirage’, a site-specific installation that reconstructs the artist’s first installation from 1975. Installation has been an integral facet of Steir’s practice since this work, when she began painting and drawing directly onto the walls, defining spaces through color and line so that the viewer could stand in the very middle of her work. ‘Mirage’ builds on and adapts formal elements from Steir’s early installation which explored the foundations of visual and verbal consciousness. Steir has made more than 50 installations for public spaces and institutions including the New Museum, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, documenta IX, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA PS1.

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Among the great innovators of contemporary painting, Pat Steir 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 rigorous pouring technique seen in her Waterfall works, 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 the both the visual and literary realms, Steir’s storied five-decade career ­­continues to reach new heights through an intrepid commitment to material exploration and experimentation.

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Wooster Street
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Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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Hauser Wirth contemporary art gallery in New York Wooster Street United States
Hauser & Wirth
Wooster Street, New York, United States

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Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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