Screening for Pat Steir: Joan Jonas’s ‘Street Scene’ and ‘Street Scene with Chalk’ 

On the occasion of 'Pat Steir. Blue River and Rainbow Waterfalls', the artist’s inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, and first show in New York City since 2017, please join us for a screening of Joan Jonas’s ‘Street Scene’ (1976) and ‘Street Scene with Chalk’ (2010) in response to the works on view at Hauser Wirth New York 22nd Street.

‘Street Scene’ (1976), featuring artists Joan Jonas, Andy Mann and Pat Steir, is an improvisational black and white film shot over one night on Wall Street.

Screening on loop from 4 – 6 pm ‘Street Scene’ (1976) Running time 11 mins

‘Street Scene with Chalk’ (2010) Running time 11 mins

“In 1976, I went down at night with Pat Steir and Andy Mann, and we just improvised for the camera in the streets, on Wall Street. You can’t do that anymore. So that whole playfulness is gone. It’s not something you can do so easily, anymore.” — Joan Jonas

This event is free, however, reservations are required.

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About Pat Steir Among the great innovators of contemporary painting, Pat Steir first came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. By the late 1980s, her inventive approach to painting—the rigorous pouring technique seen in her Waterfall works, in which she harnessed the forces of gravity and gesture to achieve works of astonishing lyricism—attracted substantial critical acclaim. Informed by a deep engagement with art history and Eastern philosophy, and a passion for artistic advocacy in the both the visual and literary realms, Steir’s storied five-decade career ­­continues to reach new heights through an intrepid commitment to material exploration and experimentation.

About Joan Jonas Joan Jonas is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture. Joan’s experiments and productions in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures. Joan has exhibited, screened, and performed her work at museums, galleries, and in large scale group exhibitions throughout the world. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at Hangar Bicocca, Milan; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; the United States Pavilion for the 56th edition of the Venice Biennial; Tate Modern, London; TBA21 Ocean Space at the San Lorenzo Church, Venice; and Serralves Museum, Porto. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize, presented to those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.