Pat Steir is the latest artist to join the esteemed roster of Hauser & Wirth. Long celebrated for her drippy waterfall paintings, which center gravity and chance as a key component to the work’s execution, the gallery will now be able to showcase Steir’s large abstract paintings at any of its 16 global locations.
According to Hauser & Wirth president, Marc Payot, Steir is a “key painter of her generation that has not gotten the attention she deserves, not in terms of the market—her market has developed in a substantial way in recent years—but in terms of a retrospective.”
Having recently complemented a series of monumental sculptures by Ugo Rondinone, Steir has “created a visual language wholly her own,” said Payot, adding that this lexicon is “a new abstraction that embraces anima and chance, that embeds poetry and philosophy in a practice which also encompasses writing, performance, and mentoring. She is simultaneously a living legend and a contemporary innovator.”
As Steir was formerly represented by Lévy Gorvy — which has since merged with Salon 94 and Amalia Dayan to become LGDR — the artist will continue to show at galleries and institutions that have exhibited her art.
An award-winning work of digital art is not sitting well with the internet. Created by Jason M. Allen and entered into the Colorado State Fair annual art competition under the “Digital Arts/Digitally-Manipulated Photography” category, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (pictured below) beat out 18 pieces of art to claim first place and the $300 USD prize.
This issue — the art was created using an AI software called Midjourney. The tool works by entering a set of keywords where an image is then generated. The file can then be tweaked or fine-tuned to the maker’s liking with the altering of words.
While Allen is quite proud of his work, as it has not overstepped any of the rules of the contest, along with the fact that he spent over 80 hours going over 900 iterations, artists on Twitter are thinking otherwise. One user pointed out that the judges did not know that it was AI-generated and that it does not “bode well for the ‘human vs AI’ illustration discussion.”
Check out the award-winning Théâtre D’opéra Spatial below.
Parra, Patta and Avant Arte are three titans of Amsterdam’s rich street culture, and now they’re having a Voltron moment by uniting for a charitable print release. When the Smoke Clears is the name of the work, and its style is catnip for longtime Parra fans: it combines forms, figures, colors, and styles that were present in his previous work with the more sharp-edged look of his contemporary work.
A perspective shot of a woman sitting in front of what appears to be a body of water and a tree-lined landscape, When the Smoke Clears is silkscreened and hand-signed. Each retails for €250 EUR (approximately $253 USD).
Proceeds from the project will go to Patta Academy, a Patta-funded organization that serves as an incubator for youth entrepreneurship. Besides the print itself, Avant Arte has produced a film to tell the story of the collaboration and explore the entrepreneurial spirit of Amsterdam’s young creative class.
The print will be available from September 22-24 on the Avant Arte website. If Parra and Patta are involved in something, you know there’s gotta be a pop-up as well, so Patta is hosting a one-day event at their Amsterdam flagship come September 24, at which T-shirts and a black and white ‘shadow print’ version – limited to 250 prints – will be available.
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