Pat Steir’s paintings have been exhibited since 1964, including several Whitney and Venice biennales. She represented the U.S. in the 19th Sao Paolo Bienal and was also included in Documenta IX.

In “Moon Paintings and a River,” Steir explores an idea of visual space that is at once flat and deep in her singular painting language. This exhibition will feature the monumental “Blue River,” a twenty six-foot painting on canvas in which an enormous expanse of blue is enclosed by vibrant red and silver. In the “Moon Paintings,” Pat Steir invents a dialogue between vast fields of subtly modulating color and singular, definitive gestures. The gestures and events in the paintings hover and emerge out of a mist of thrown and poured rivulets.

“Pat Steir: Moon Paintings and a River” coincides with two other exhibitions of Steir’s work: “Pat Steir: Drawings” at Cook Fine Art, New York, March 7 – May 11; and Pace Prints Gallery, New York, March 10 – April 9, 2005.