Pat Steir

This monograph celebrates the Waterfall paintings of Pat Steir (born 1940), begun in 1989. Steir pours a mixture of pigment, oil and turpentine down a vertical canvas and waits for it to coalesce between layers, resulting in stratified compositions and overlapping color.

Pat Steir has been painting and making prints and installations for decades, and exhibiting her work worldwide since the early 1970s, in which time she has had more than 145 solo exhibitions. She is the recipient of two NEA grants and one Guggenheim grant, and her work has appeared at venues including the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Tate Gallery. She has taught at Parsons School of Design, Princeton University, Hunter College and the California Institute of the Arts. She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam.