On This Spot Newsletter September 2025

On This Spot tells the stories of a diverse group of women artists through short-form documentaries. Join us as we put women artists on the map.

Video Spotlight – Pat Steir

Pat Steir works large – landscape size not window size. The acclaimed painter is known for her waterfall paintings in which she allows thinned oil paint to flow down the canvas – in black and white or in sumptuous color. With a background in publishing, Steir helped launch Printed Matter in 1976. Despite their monumentality, her works have a delicacy she learned from both Japanese and Chinese painting traditions.

Spot Watches

Further content related to Spot artists

Pat Steir: Artist, A Documentary Directed by Veronica Gonzalez Peña

Pat Steir: Artist is a profoundly personal portrait of the groundbreaking woman painter by her friend, novelist and filmmaker Veronica Gonzalez Peña - the result is an intimate, character driven, revelatory film.

In Case You Missed It

Recording of Webinar with the Brooklyn Rail

Artists Alice Aycock, Jane Dickson, and Co-Founder and Executive Director of On This Spot NYC Loretta Howard joined Rail Editor-at-Large William Corwin for a conversation on Zoom recorded September 4th.

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