Pat Steir’s “Nearly Endless Line” winds through the Sue Scott Gallery on Rivington (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Sue Scott Gallery
1 Rivington St. at Bowery
Through Sunday, January 9, free
212-358-8767
www.suescottgallery.com
Today is your last chance to see New York City-based artist Pat Steir’s “The Nearly Endless Line” at the Sue Scott Gallery on Rivington St., but it is not nearly the end of the seventy-year-old Newark native’s line work, as her Whitney mural, “Another Nearly Endless Line,” will be visible from Madison Ave. while restaurateur Danny Meyer turns the lower level space into a new café. Whereas the Whitney piece is a flaglike conglomeration of multiple colors, the work at Sue Scott is a dark, mysterious black-and-white installation (with blue lighting) that winds through the gallery, across doors, and over every nook and cranny in its path. Seemingly aglow with a life of its own, the line occasionaly pauses for a little flourish, a loop here and there, as it makes its way back to the entrance. “It’s almost like a map you can’t follow, a road map to a place you can’t go,” Steir has said of the Whitney piece, but the statement relates just as well to the Scott work. The show also includes a time-lapse video of Steir creating “The Nearly Endless Line” in addition to several abstract works that recall ancient Asian scrolls. The gallery is a little hard to find, so just look for the white wall dripping that Steir left on the outside brick as a marker.