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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 where possible.
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.
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…”so real, you’d think it’s not just a drawing but an actual photography.”
- ouch - double ouch to both drawing and photography!
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Agnes Martin: The Islands - on the way!
Two books from Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1957-1975 and The Islands
Agnes Martin was a Canadian-born American abstract painter. An element that is common to a lot of her work is matte white color that absorbs the surrounding light but only partially radiates it back as well as the structure of fine horizontal lines drawn in pencil. bdp is very pleased to share these two beautiful books of her legendary work.
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"When people go to the ocean they like to see it all day… There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. It’s a simple experience, you become lighter in weight, you wouldn’t want anything else. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain - you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this. … Not a specific response but that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature - an experience of simple joy… the simple, direct going into a field of vision as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.” - Agnes Martin 1966"
Quote from Paintings and drawings 1977-1991 - Agnes Martin - Exhibition by Serpentine Gallery 1993.
The more time I spend with Martin’s drawings and paintings the more I realize that to me it is important to practice drawing in such a way that the result is not an illustration of an idea but that the drawing somehow might embody or elicit a certain kind of response - a difficult thing to accomplish - because an idea can certainly be easy to illustrate and is easily understood and then forgotten… It’s the things that I don’t understand that interest me… and seem to stick in my mind.
Matt Niebuhr, Untitled (first construction, three targets, nine points at random) (2011)
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Here’s a short film made by Diane Guyot who was kind enough to come along and document our marathon open Drawing Sessions event at The Royal Standard last November. We’ll do another event this year so watch this space.
Special thanks go to Dave and Fran Evans, Ailie Rutherford, Madeline Hall, Andrew Foulds and Hannah Bitowski for their input and assistance with the project. Thanks also to all the performers and speakers and everyone who came along and made it a great event.
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Richard Long
Untitled, 2004
River Avon mud on Douglas Fir plywood
96 x 24 inches
243,8 x 61 cm
SW 04379
Long time interest in Long… I like the inclusion of labels in his work that describe the materials put to work in the piece “Untitled” , for instance, I wonder, why River Avon mud? The hint of a larger story?
A line, nature with nature - what guides the line?
Linda Hutchins
Right Hand Switch
2011
India ink on watercolor paper
11”h x 17”w
MAY 31 - JULY 2, 2011
Back to Basics (Solo exhibition)
Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Just saw this drawing and the others of the series up on the wall and it was really great to see them all together - highly recommend visiting / viewing if in Portland! Otherwise be sure to check out the artist’s website… Nice to see native Portland work! The line work - amazing in itself, smooth, flowing, very fine, not at all tentative. The lines are very deliberate in that sense, but what is striking too is the overall fields of pattern that develop - very interesting as a series…
untitled ( lines “y” 10,000 horizontal)
2011_06_13
graphite on polyester drafting film
39” x 60” (99.06 x 152.4)cm
Matt Niebuhr
” … the ten thousand things … “
Drawing, Detail from Wade Guyton.
Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer,
Secession 2011,
Photo: Wade Guyton Studio
“… – let’s say it’s formalized chance.” Wade Guyton
something more about process… eye candy or is medium the message ?
![Agnes MartinUntitled11 7/8 x 12 1/8” (30.2 x 30.6 cm)Ink on paper1960.(Agnes Martin. 1912-2004)
…”While minimalist in form, … these paintings [drawings] were [are] quite different in spirit from those of … other minimalist counterparts, retaining small flaws and unmistakable traces of the artist’s hand…” source
This is the one of the characteristics (the artist’s (makers) hand) that is important to consider.
There is I believe an important distinction - it’s that “imperfection” , that something which creeps in when making things by hand that adds fidelity to the experience that is lacking in machine / mechanical / computer production…
Something to consider in “how” things get made - is it the fact that human hands touched this thing - made it - that we respond differently?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgpzwogt7c1qal15co1_500.jpg)
Agnes Martin
Untitled
11 7/8 x 12 1/8” (30.2 x 30.6 cm)
Ink on paper
1960.
(Agnes Martin. 1912-2004)
…”While minimalist in form, … these paintings [drawings] were [are] quite different in spirit from those of … other minimalist counterparts, retaining small flaws and unmistakable traces of the artist’s hand…” source
This is the one of the characteristics (the artist’s (makers) hand) that is important to consider.
There is I believe an important distinction - it’s that “imperfection” , that something which creeps in when making things by hand that adds fidelity to the experience that is lacking in machine / mechanical / computer production…
Something to consider in “how” things get made - is it the fact that human hands touched this thing - made it - that we respond differently?
detail: untitled (line studies - #1 - three target construction)
2011_02_13
graphite on paper
18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cm
Matt Niebuhr
The magic moment when constructing a circle from three points comes after laying out perpendicular lines to find their intersection and therefor the center then to put the compass at that center and to connect the points in one complete motion - that is the moment closest to magic for me. A circle is but a line forming a closed loop, every point on which is a fixed distance from a center.
Maybe too, it’s a metaphor for life, on the magic of finding a center…
