10/10/2006

Pat Steir

48 comments:

youth--less said...

i've always liked pat steir--since back when she was painting the breadfruit and irises. i'd love to see a retrospective.

Desert Island Painter said...

Is there a NY show right now? where? I've long liked Steir, too, and I daresay the paintings are more compelling than the jpgs.

Michael Cross said...

Her work makes clear to me that in any painting, the distinctions among "landscape" "figure" and "abstract" are artificial ones.

zipthwung said...

Austere.

THere are pat steirs up once in a while - i see them around, or maybe its the iron oxide stains in the subway. Stalactites. Stalagmites.

zipthwung said...

pure

poetry

no-where-man said...

does anyone know the title or scale on this piece? is it considered a "Waterfall"?

zipthwung said...

"Up up down down left right left right B A Start, just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart.

Figurative abstraction. Wearable art. Volk kunst!

zipthwung said...

aniline dye!

zipthwung said...

I cant believe its not Zen!

Bark at the Moon.

kelli said...

I friend worked for her. A very nice lady. A retrospective is due but it might be later than sooner because the work is so introspective. Tomas said Furnas in contrast was like "being shouted at".

zipthwung said...

if I vever lose my eyes

Yusuf is also sending a personally signed copy of the book to the Pope for his library; hoping the understanding and dialogue between people of the great faiths of Islam and Christianity will advance towards a more enlightened future of knowledge, charity and peaceful co-existence."

Yusuf Islam

Ramtha

Alan Watts

Donald Kuspit

Suzi Gablik

Thus decoupled cognition, in this sense, is neither an evolutionary nor a cognitive "problem." Pretense (or "the unreal") is first experienced within a "real," shared context, by means of analogical intermodal representations that have intrinsic and pervasive emotional valences or overtones. Moreover, the importance to early interactions of expectation or anticipation, dependent on infant receptivity to maternal presentation of dynamically varied, temporally patterned sequences, suggests that, for adults (as well as infants), nonverbal "emotional narrative" that unfolds in time is as integral to the content and effect of imaginary representations -- fiction, poetry, and related arts -- as are their imagery, plot, and other more easily describable components.

Thank you Ellen Dissanayake

jpegCritic said...
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zipthwung said...

Tautologicly speaking:

"Sincerity means the completion of the self, and the Way is self directing. Sincerity is the beginning and ending of things. Without sincerity there would be nothing.....therefore absolute sincerity is ceaseless. Being ceaseless, it is lasting. Being lasting, it is evident. Being evident, it is infinite.

-Confucius

Anonymous said...

What's introspection for you (?)--reaching in for something that's not there, hard to reach, or needs tugging out--a process?

In this work processes are equally external and internal.

'... layers to the surface, rises to the austere. Then parts.'

Very powerful.

SisterRye said...

I wonder what Freud would say about this vertical crease.

It does remind me of a trickling waterfall, or rain.

I'd prefer to see this kind of work in person. The work of people like Twombly, or Brice Marden always looks best in person.

Sven said...

whoa..Marden and Steir are getting don corleone status now? whats up with my worldview

kelli said...

Cooky you don't want to wake up with a Susan Rothenberg horse's head in your bed. Or sleep with the Fishmans. Or be fitted for some concrete Carl Andre shoes.

zipthwung said...

Apparently a prominent artist tried to run down Donal Kuspit in a car once.

I dont need to know, but I want to know.

zipthwung said...

exquisite

Sven said...

c. andre shoes sounds kinda cool

"they can be really beautiful, like ceramics"
--are u teasin?

youth--less said...

PS not capturing the zeitgeist for you cooky?
(im teasin)

cha said...

rocket launched....

youth--less said...

PS is very generous--she leaves it open to your interpretation.

Is it enough? Enough what, exactly? What do you need? What are you looking for? Interesting when someone feels they need to read some background something to "know". But the early work, inspired by Agnes martin, is fascinating. And the mid 80s investigation of style...

I find them subtle. Distilled. Powerful, as Brent said.

jpegCritic said...

ok, so i wonder why anyone hasn't yet
mentioned barnett newman's Zip --
(sorry no relation to zipthwung, but
in reference to newman)

I know it's made differently than bn's
zip, but as a figural stand in, pictorially,
doesn't it work the same schtick?

I mean, in a good way -- an evolution
of the zip. a zippier zip, perhaps?

I know it may be just coincedence,
or just not interesting enough to
discuss... perhaps better to discuss
the first star trek movie when the woman
got zapped by the V-gr vertical plasmatic
electrical probe.

zipthwung said...

glazed

youth--less said...

what is the shtick/stick? Finding a simple image that evokes a lot of things--history, art history, nature, personality...

Donuts and everclear. Yum.

zipthwung said...

One time I was psyching myself up to jump off a 35 foot cliff into a river at the end of the summer. You had to clear a good six feet beyond the lip, and the bank looked threatening. There was a well worn path to the edge - a zip. I closed my eyes and imagined a line down the center of my body.

WHen I was little I thought of this line as "my soul" - a sort of rebar in the concrete of my body. The supple pine to the brittle nature. An I-beam.

Properly centered I ran to the edge and jumped.

Thats called a Kierkegardian leap of faith, or just stupidity. Either way I found myself in the clutches of gravity.

FOr an instant I hung in the air, falling slowly.

Then I fell faster.

I began to fall a little askew, no longer a straight line perpendicular with the water.

The impact was brutal.

Emerging from the water I felt my nose bleeding, and a large red welt ran down my right leg.

Then I told my friend to jump.

zipthwung said...

You know these arent really my think but I like them better than the false spirituality of Sean Scully. Less than a good Rothko, more than a Robert Ryman. More or less.

I've only been to church a few times - mostly because of weddings and stuff.

This painting would go good in a skylit atrium, with raked gravel and a light grey slate walkway to the bathroom.

youth--less said...

Sean Scullys a bricklayer. Church sucks. Full of hypocrites.

We used to go to a new age church in the 80s. Over at the swedish hall on Market St. Dude was crazy. Healing circles. No hypocrisy though. Kinda fun. Lots of love.

zipthwung said...

sean scully

Love bombing is a good technique - keep them occupied, restrict their caloric intake and keep the lights on so its hard to sleep.

no-where-man said...

thx gazinia!

i am not very familiar with this Artist and cannot comment on the surface but from the titles it seems that she is capturing something more literal then abstract, like a zoom lense.

zipthwung said...

paid vacation

youth--less said...

well u see my friend...we went because people had aids and they wanted to be healed. they died in the end. but we were all healed as much as we could be. the love we felt lasts forever, thru space and time, for what its worth

zipthwung said...

jesus

zipthwung said...

I find a warm bath does wonders.

zipthwung said...

youre dangerous

cnn says its a small plane.

no-where-man said...

like a lizard on a window pane.


they took my liquid eyeliner away when i last flew - but small planes are ok to fly around tall buildings. perfect.

zipthwung said...

More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.

Africa has 12 million AIDS orphans.

BALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) -- War has wiped out about 655,000 Iraqis or more than 500 people a day since the U.S.-led invasion, a new study reports.

youth--less said...

No offense, just meant that love bombs are at least as good as emotional body armor. Actual body armor? Never tried it...

zipthwung said...

not how much just how many.

zipthwung said...

dreams do come true

Exploding shock collars are just around the corner.

jpegCritic said...

klik

zipthwung said...

boom

does pat steir like rock music?

Martin said...

this is the 1973 Pat Steir that is included in the High Times, Hard Times show, for whomever was looking for older work -

http://flickr.com/photos/43686206@N00/267404005/

you can see some early drips.

she was good in the Art City video... warm.

youth--less said...

Thats a super nice photo stream Martin. Good stuff. Thanks

zipthwung said...

High times hard times Its off to the races again...

Id rather be a waterfall than a shoe.

zipthwung said...

THe Tao of Satchi:

One place where he is not discovering much art at the moment is London. “I can’t pretend I find it as exciting as it was. Everything is cyclical.”

high times

Apparently there isnt enough art in the world.

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