Daily News | Gravity, nature, and paint: See Pat Steir’s revolutionary works
on Mar 10, 2023, 4:55 a.m. ET
Rather than painting in controlled brushstrokes, she began dripping, pouring, and splashing paint on canvases. Gravity and nature, and even the paint itself, would create art with her and, in some ways, almost magically on their own. Yet it remained personal, often lyrical, inviting the viewer to create their own connection with what they see.
Born in Newark in 1938, Steir was discouraged from making art by her father, who would have liked to be an artist but had too many children to support, she said in an interview for the Smithsonian Institution.“I would leave school, or never arrive, and go to [the Philadelphia Museum of Art],” she said in the interview. “I did it so often, sitting on the floor, spreading my books out on the floor, looking at the artwork, eating apples, that after a while the guards didn’t even chase me away.
As art critic Carter Ratcliff observes in his essay Pat Steir: Paradox and Freedom written for the Locks Gallery exhibit, the artist’s work embraces both control and chaos.
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