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.../miscellaneous - is a personal journal self educational in nature, containing notes and images that inspire me, or that I wish to learn more about - as such, it includes works by other people as noted with full acknowledgment and credit to authors and sources.

I also share content of my own making that I think is worth sharing with a larger audience. If there is any work by others who object to having their work posted here, I will remove the content if so requested.

Matt Niebuhr - Works ...examining the threshold at which ordinary visibility ends and perception begins... is a site featuring my work exclusively.

Intersecting Images : a "blog" with musings about art, photography and culture - begun in 2005

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Wake, Richard Serra on Flickr.Richard Serra, Wake 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington
Photographs: Matt Niebuhr, 2010
One aspect that I really appreciate about Serra’s work with weathering steel, is the material responding to environmental conditions, (developing a unique skin appearance over time) It is this aspect of understanding how materials age, that creates the opportunity for something unique to become relative to place / shape.

Wake, Richard Serra on Flickr.

Richard Serra, Wake 2003 weatherproof steel, 14 x 75 x 46 feet

Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

Photographs: Matt Niebuhr, 2010

One aspect that I really appreciate about Serra’s work with weathering steel, is the material responding to environmental conditions, (developing a unique skin appearance over time) It is this aspect of understanding how materials age, that creates the opportunity for something unique to become relative to place / shape.

Happy Holidays!
(via Matt Niebuhr,)

Happy Holidays!

(via Matt Niebuhr,)

new work - (personal note: I’m trying to better understand how materials, process, and tools effect outcomes - it’s a study of technique I’ve been exploring on paper - trying to find a way to make an image in my own voice…)
mattniebuhrdrawings:

 
untitled2011_12_17gesso, oil pastel and acrylic on wood panel24” x 24” (60.96 x 60.96)cm Matt Niebuhr
www.mattniebuhr.com
details:
  
detail: untitled 2011_12_17
  
 
detail: untitled 2011_12_17
 
detail: untitled 2011_12_17

new work - (personal note: I’m trying to better understand how materials, process, and tools effect outcomes - it’s a study of technique I’ve been exploring on paper - trying to find a way to make an image in my own voice…)

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled
2011_12_17
gesso, oil pastel and acrylic on wood panel
24” x 24” (60.96 x 60.96)cm 
Matt Niebuhr

www.mattniebuhr.com

details:

detail, Matt Niebuhr, untitled 2011_12_17  

detail: untitled 2011_12_17

 

 

detail: untitled 2011_12_17

 

detail: untitled 2011_12_17


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Agnes MartinUntitled 1993Watercolour and graphite on paper11 x 11 in. / 27.9 x 27.9 cm
A few more works here: Timothy Taylor Gallery
I appreciate mostly the drawings: particularly the study of proportions within a square…  imagine a dialogue of thought about containment and escape, balance and asymmetry, perfection and flaw… 

Agnes Martin
Untitled 1993
Watercolour and graphite on paper
11 x 11 in. / 27.9 x 27.9 cm

A few more works here: Timothy Taylor Gallery

I appreciate mostly the drawings: particularly the study of proportions within a square…  imagine a dialogue of thought about containment and escape, balance and asymmetry, perfection and flaw… 

RICHARD SERRADouble Rift #3, 2011Paintstick on handmade paper105 1/8 x 199 1/8 inches framed (267 x 505.8 cm)

DRAWINGSNOVEMBER 23, 2011 - JANUARY 7, 2012 Gagosian gallery: Paris

RICHARD SERRA
Double Rift #3, 2011
Paintstick on handmade paper
105 1/8 x 199 1/8 inches framed (267 x 505.8 cm)

DRAWINGS
NOVEMBER 23, 2011 - JANUARY 7, 2012
 Gagosian gallery: Paris

Untitled (photograph)
Richard Misrach

Untitled (photograph)

Richard Misrach

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled (#1, #2, #3 - Basalt shards - East Central Oregon)2009_08_23pigment inkjet printseach Image size 12” x 18”18” x 24” (45.7 x 60.9)cm
 each in custom frame by the artist -  baltic birch, glazing: acrylic
Matt Niebuhr
Last week (or so)  of exhibition @ the Aalto Lounge - Portland, Oregon!

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled (#1, #2, #3 - Basalt shards - East Central Oregon)
2009_08_23
pigment inkjet prints
each Image size 12” x 18”
18” x 24” (45.7 x 60.9)cm

 each in custom frame by the artist -  baltic birch, glazing: acrylic

Matt Niebuhr

Last week (or so)  of exhibition @ the Aalto Lounge - Portland, Oregon!


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Baltz, Lewis American (1945-)Tract House #7 PORTFOLIO “The Tract Houses”, 1971gelatin silver print 14.1 x 21.9 cm. 

Baltz, Lewis 
American (1945-)
Tract House #7 
PORTFOLIO “The Tract Houses”, 1971
gelatin silver print 
14.1 x 21.9 cm. 

RACHEL HOWARD | FOLIE À DEUXFear of Madness, 2011Oil, household gloss and acrylic on canvas198.1 x 198.1 cm(78 x 78 in)

RACHEL HOWARD | FOLIE À DEUX
Fear of Madness, 2011
Oil, household gloss and acrylic on canvas
198.1 x 198.1 cm
(78 x 78 in)

mattniebuhrdrawings:

 
untitled (line studies - #1 - two target construction)2011_01graphite on paper18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cmMatt Niebuhr
(a geometry construction using a compass and straightedge - two circles, constructed from three points each located at random on the page - then divided equally to form additional circles, rendered in poche to represent disks. A circle is a line forming a closed loop, every point on which is a fixed distance from a center point. A disk is a round portion of a plane which has a circular outline)
See this and other original works available for purchase here - Thanks!  
Two Targets is now part of a private collection…!

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled (line studies - #1 - two target construction)
2011_01
graphite on paper
18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cm
Matt Niebuhr

(a geometry construction using a compass and straightedge - two circles, constructed from three points each located at random on the page - then divided equally to form additional circles, rendered in poche to represent disks. A circle is a line forming a closed loop, every point on which is a fixed distance from a center point. A disk is a round portion of a plane which has a circular outline)

See this and other original works available for purchase here - Thanks!  

Two Targets is now part of a private collection…!


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Frank Stella
Study for Gavotte [recto]line drawing for Gavotte [verso] 
1967crayon and pencil image 
25.6 h x 40.6 w cm 

Frank Stella

Study for Gavotte 
[recto]
line drawing for Gavotte 
[verso] 

1967
crayon and pencil image

25.6 h x 40.6 w cm 

Frank StellaCinema de Pepsi Sketch I, 1966Alkyd on canvas69 x 69 inches175.3 x 175.3 cmPK 15842

Frank Stella
Cinema de Pepsi Sketch I, 1966
Alkyd on canvas
69 x 69 inches
175.3 x 175.3 cm
PK 15842


Martin Puryear
In sheep’s clothing
1996
Des Moines Art Center

Martin Puryear

In sheep’s clothing

1996

Des Moines Art Center

Ellsworth Kelly
Curve XXI
 1978-80
also

Ellsworth Kelly

Curve XXI

1978-80

also