This exhibition took place at our previous Paris location.
LGDR is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Pat Steir. Opening on June 8, at the gallery's Paris space at 4 Passage Saint-Avoye through July 15, Pat Steir presents the most recent developments in the acclaimed abstract painter's ongoing experimentation with gesture, colour, and chromatic perception. Beginning her career in the mid 1960s, Steir was among the first wave of women abstract artists to gain prominence in New York as a vital figure of the avant-garde. Her philosophical and conceptual approach to painting was embraced in Paris and throughout France, culminating in solo exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (1990) and Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble (1992).
Pat Steir follows recent groundbreaking installations of the artist's work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2019–2021), and Long Museum, Shanghai (2021). For Color Wheel at the Hirshhorn, Steir created an ambitious suite of thirty paintings that compose the full colour spectrum, with each canvas comprising an immersive, monumental gradient. In 2021, Steir continued her in-depth explorations of colour in the Long Museum show, her first major survey in China. The centrepiece of that exhibition was Rainbow Waterfall (2021), a painting that synthesises the layered, kaleidoscopic innovations of the Hirshhorn series into a single large-scale work. Taken together, these projects reaffirmed and reimagined Steir's ongoing and iconic Waterfall series, which have formed the basis of her meditative approach to painting since 1989.
For Steir, each advancement in her practice informs the next. Thus, her new paintings on view at LGDR Paris are guided by her most recent engagements with classical colour theory. Central to these works is a rich and emotive red tone, denoted by Steir as a colour of joy and passion. The scale of these new canvases, as well as the layering of Steir's brushwork, invite the viewer's gaze to move vertically in contrasting to the earthbound forces of gravity she employs in her signature process of pouring, splashing, and brushing thin layers of paint onto upright canvases. At the same time, the artist's grounding in Minimalism is expressed through the delicate chalk lines that grid and demarcate the surfaces of her works. At the centre of each of these canvases stands Steir's all encompassing gesture: the brushstroke that engenders the 'waterfall' of paint which asserts her intervention and presence.
Press release courtesy Lévy Gorvy Dayan.
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