Pat Steir

NEW YORK

Pat Steir

CHEIM & READ

Since 1989, Pat Steir has remained committed to producing her signature "Waterfall Paintings," for which she pours thinned, almost aqueous oil paint in multiple layers onto a dry, primed ground so that it cascades down the canvas. Reminiscent of their namesake cataracts, these works effect - through Steir's incorporation of drips and frank homage to modernist geometries - what Matthew Guy Nichols aptly described in 2008 as a "rain shower through a Newman 'zip' painting." Others have written paeans to Steir's gravity-abetted rivulets and torrents, and most cannot help but note her engagement with natural phenomena: responses …