Dorothy's Seascape
Pat Steir was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1940 and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a widely recognized artist whose works are found in numerous private and public collections. Steir’s paintings, composed by layers of drips and pours, are an amalgamation of art historical reference and responses to the properties of pigments and tools. Though they visually recall Pollocks’ drip paintings they are conceptually separated by her focus on the entropic properties of time.1 Steir, whose contributions to feminist art include a seat on the editorial board of feminist art publication Heresies, rejected the “feminist” categorization of her own work. In a 2011 interview with The Brooklyn Rail she stated, “I wanted to be seen simply as an artist, I wanted to be a contender, an equal. I think my existence and survival in art, along with other women of my generation, has political implications beyond the personal.”2
- Molly Donovan, “Art of Their Time” in Women Artists in the Vogel Collection: Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia, February 5-April 5, 1998. Brenau University Galleries, 1998, 15 -16.
- Kathan Brown “Pat Steir and Agnes Martin: No Pretensions” in Crown Point Press Newsletter, April 2012.