Pat Steir
Red, 2018
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
© Pat Steir Photo by Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
The painter’s upcoming Washington, D.C. exhibition promises to be one of the year’s must-sees.
Ask the painter Pat Steir what she’d like viewers to take away from her work, and she doesn’t immediately give a concrete answer. “I never hope for what an audience will get out of an exhibition,” Steir says, sitting at a table in a sunny corner of her cavernous studio on Manhattan’s far West side. “Because the audience is a group of individuals, and different individuals take away different things.”