Join us at Hauser & Wirth New York, Wooster Street, to celebrate the opening of the exhibition 'Pat Steir. Mirage' and the book launch for 'Pat Steir: Paintings 2018 – 2025' from Hauser & Wirth Publishers.

Signed copies of the book will be available to purchase.

Popsicles will be provided by La Newyorkina.

Entry is free. Please register in advance so we can anticipate visitor numbers. Click here to register.

About Pat Steir. Mirage

This Summer at Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street gallery, Pat Steir will present 'Mirage', a site-specific installation that reconstructs the artist’s first installation from 1975. Installation has been an integral facet of Steir’s practice since this work, when she began painting and drawing directly onto the walls, defining spaces through color and line so that the viewer could stand in the very middle of her work. 'Mirage' builds on and adapts formal elements from Steir’s early installation which explored the foundations of visual and verbal consciousness. Steir has made more than 50 installations for public spaces and institutions including the New Museum, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, documenta IX, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and MoMA PS1.

About Pat Steir: Paintings 2018 – 2025

This illustrated monograph features the most recent paintings by renowned American artist Pat Steir (b. 1938). Recognized for her iconic 'Waterfall' paintings of poured and cascaded paint that challenge and transcend the divide between figuration and abstraction, Steir’s enduringly original paintings, drawings, prints, and installations have been exhibited internationally since the early 1960s. This book encompasses a generative period of the eighty-seven-year-old artist’s paintings, which included her largest installation to date—organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.—where Steir transformed the museum’s circular gallery into an immersive 'Color Wheel.' A transcript of a conversation between the artist and curator Evelyn C. Hankins is published here, alongside images of Steir’s innovative exhibition. In 2019 the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, presented Steir’s site-specific installation, 'Silent Secret Waterfalls.' This suite of lyrical paintings evoking wind and water is also memorialized in this book, which opens with a poetic reflection from award-winning author Colm Tóibín on this remarkable chapter of Steir’s art.