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Interview with Pat Steir in Time Out New York

I once read a short story by an Italian writer about a man who took lessons in a language from another man. The man who took the lessons wrote a novel in that language and in the meantime the teacher died. And he discovered that no one on earth spoke that language; he had written a novel in a language that no one speaks. And that’s why I feel like one of the few priests of a struggling religion.

Review of the exhibition by David Carrier at artcritical magazine

Taking subjects from the raw materials for old master art, Steir transforms them in accord with her very contemporary sensibility. For the old masters, schemata were the basis for art. For her, however, this assemblage of vastly enlarged fragments constitute her subject, for the whole body seen from outside has been replaced by an array of depicted body-parts.