Pat Steir: Kairos - Lévy Gorvy
  • Installation view of Pat Steir's Kairos exhibition at Lévy Gorvy New York, 2017

    Installation view of Pat Steir: Kairos. Photograph Tom Powel Imaging.

  • Installation view of Pat Steir's Kairos exhibition at Lévy Gorvy New York, 2017

    Installation view of Pat Steir: Kairos. Photograph Tom Powel Imaging.

  • Installation view of Pat Steir's Kairos exhibition at Lévy Gorvy New York, 2017

    Installation view of Pat Steir: Kairos. Photograph Tom Powel Imaging.

  • Installation view of Pat Steir's Kairos exhibition at Lévy Gorvy New York, 2017

    Installation view of Pat Steir: Kairos. Photograph Tom Powel Imaging.

Pat Steir: KairosExhibitions

New York
September 7 - October 21, 2017

Opening Reception: September 7, 6 – 8 PM

Pat Steir: Kairos

Filling the public floors of the gallery with a suite of five eleven-foot tall oil on canvas paintings and eight smaller-scale works, this is the first New York exhibition of Pat Steir since she joined Lévy Gorvy in early 2016. Pat Steir: Kairos will showcase paintings that manifest a methodological and philosophical continuity with—and slight formal departure from—her celebrated Waterfall series. Comprising Steir’s first exhibition of new work in over three years, the paintings in Kairos are lush and sweeping in scale, with titles such as Endless Sky, Aporia, Melancholy, Poros, and Rose Hip, describing the states and senses they evoke. The featured works revisit the dialogue between intuition and accident that has defined Steir’s work since the 1970s, renewing these themes for the present day.

The dialectics of intention and chance define Steir's five-decade long practice; in the Kairos paintings, Steir furthers her investigation of non-objective painting with planes of complex color and texture situated on and between a central fissure. The exhibition title, Kairos—meaning a propitious moment for decision or action—originates from Trance Abyss, a poem by Anne Waldman written specifically with this body of work in mind and published in the exhibition catalogue. Observing their temporal dynamics, Waldman remarks, "There is a rupture in the fabric of Pat Steir's current paintings. The explosive Waterfalls offered a full-on stereophonic experience of entering spaces of celestial climatic ‘pours’ and one feels the visceral impact of her entities in space. But here we peer into the heavenly abyss, the beauteous, unsettling rift which is a contentious point of origin between two sides or bodies of similar yet severed wholes."

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Pat Steir: Kairos

September 18, 2017

Publications

Selected Press

Artnews | Pour Forth: Pat Steir on Her Latest Paintings

October 20, 2017

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ArtNet | After Decades of Slow and Steady, Pat Steir’s Market Is Now Moving at a Breakneck Pace

September 28, 2017

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The New Yorker | Goings On About Town: Pat Steir

September 22, 2017

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Artnet | Here Are 51 New York Gallery Shows That You Need to (Somehow) See This September

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BLOUIN ARTINFO | Top 15 Must-See Art Exhibitions in New York this September

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Hamptons Art Hub | NYC Gallery Scene – Highlights

September 5, 2017

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Cultured Magazine | Against the Grain

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Vulture | 38 Must-See Art Exhibits Opening This Fall

August 25, 2017

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New York Magazine | Fall Preview: Art

August 21, 2017

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Creators | Streaming Oil Waterfall Paintings Question the Formal Line

January 14, 2017

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Financial Times | Trickle-down effect: the method (or madness) of Pat Steir

November 4, 2016

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Interview | Artists at Work: Pat Steir

August 9, 2016

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