ARTISTS
Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air)
This summer L茅vy Gorvy is pleased to present Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air), an exhibition curated by the celebrated artist Pat Steir. The exhibition will include a selection of Steir鈥檚 paintings alongside numerous works the artist has said she 鈥渉ums to鈥� in her mind鈥攁rt from centuries past, such as historical Chinese scrolls and Kongo sculpture, and works by artists with whom Steir has engaged in ongoing and inspiring dialogue. Following the January 2019 opening of Pat Steir: Silent Secret Waterfalls at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and in anticipation of the artist鈥檚 site-specific suite of works to be unveiled in October 2019 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., this exhibition will span the two main floors of L茅vy Gorvy鈥檚 landmark gallery at 909 Madison Avenue.
Central to the works Steir has selected for this exhibition are questions regarding the nature of abstraction. At what point does an image become abstract? Since she rose to prominence in the 1970s, Steir has channeled inspiration from East Asian art, Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, European Romanticism, American Minimalism, and Conceptualism into paintings that masterfully synthesize gesture, process, and reference. As Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu recently conveyed, 鈥淪teir鈥檚 signature, multilayered canvases have time and time again redefined what it means to be a contemporary painter. Working within a framework that is simultaneously both painterly and conceptual, she has continued to create radical and profound abstractions.鈥�
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This summer L茅vy Gorvy is pleased to present Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air), an exhibition curated by the celebrated artist Pat Steir. The exhibition will include a selection of Steir鈥檚 paintings alongside numerous works the artist has said she 鈥渉ums to鈥� in her mind鈥攁rt from centuries past, such as historical Chinese scrolls and Kongo sculpture, and works by artists with whom Steir has engaged in ongoing and inspiring dialogue. Following the January 2019 opening of Pat Steir: Silent Secret Waterfalls at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and in anticipation of the artist鈥檚 site-specific suite of works to be unveiled in October 2019 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., this exhibition will span the two main floors of L茅vy Gorvy鈥檚 landmark gallery at 909 Madison Avenue.
Central to the works Steir has selected for this exhibition are questions regarding the nature of abstraction. At what point does an image become abstract? Since she rose to prominence in the 1970s, Steir has channeled inspiration from East Asian art, Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, European Romanticism, American Minimalism, and Conceptualism into paintings that masterfully synthesize gesture, process, and reference. As Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu recently conveyed, 鈥淪teir鈥檚 signature, multilayered canvases have time and time again redefined what it means to be a contemporary painter. Working within a framework that is simultaneously both painterly and conceptual, she has continued to create radical and profound abstractions.鈥�
