So happy to be sending out this drawing on its way to a new life - today!

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled (red / black)
2011_11_15
oil pastel, graphite on paper
11” x 14” (27.9 x 35.6)cm
Matt Niebuhr

This drawing has been gifted.

SPECIAL OFFER “KARMA” DRAWING

http://mattniebuhrworks.bigcartel.com/category/karma

 DISCOUNT CODE: KARMA01  (hint: with this code, this drawing is yours to enjoy in person, for 1 penny… really, it’s not about the $… it’s about seeing the world out there in real life! )  

The law of karma, says only this:`for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.’ A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions; an unskillful event is one that is accompanied by any one of those things.

With this in mind, this original drawing work is dedicated to the idea of KARMA and as such is gifted with the intent that it become and represent a ‘skillful event’.

The drawing is offered as an original work on paper, unmounted and unframed, shipped flat.

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Please be sure to include the appropriate address to which you wish to have the drawing mailed!

Enjoy.

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 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

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…!

On exhibition during the month of Sept, 2011 @ Rain City Cafe - Portland, OR

One of six new works by Matt Niebuhr on display - Rain City Cafe is located immediately adjacent to the Hollywood branch of the Multnomah County Library - Portland, OR.

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled, (horizontal bands #1)
2011_05_02
graphite on gesso on wood
24” x 24” (60.96 x 60.96)cm
Matt Niebuhr

Josef Albers
Color study

The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation © 2010 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / VG Bildkunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society, New York. Aufnahme: © 2010 Werner Hannappel / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Studies - something really wonderful about certain studies (a trail of trial and error - in the artist’s mind)  - sometimes there is an energy and freshness in them that rivals a final work - that may be the case with these!

I’m considering revisiting the targets iconography in drawing form again while reading up on the perspective use of “targets” from an art history point of view - (Jasper Johns for example)…   especially as the 4th of July looms ahead.  The targets are to me - first,  the result of some relatively simple geometric constructions, originating from an arbitrary position of three points but when combined in a certain way take on other meanings - depending on your point of view.

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!

thesonfromneptune:

Self Portrait by Chuck Close

“smooth faced - pretty boy…”

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled, (horizontal bands #2 with cube)
2011_05_10
graphite on gesso on wood
24” x 24” (60.96 x 60.96)cm
Matt Niebuhr

Part of a new series I’m interested in pursuing…

FYI:  A few new works of my own are posted - your comments are always welcome!

untitled, #1 graphite line
2011_04_18
china marker and graphite over graphite wash on paper
48” x 48” (121.92 x 121.92) cm
Matt Niebuhr

(more drawings / studies on my log over here….)

Make drawings at different sizes (keeping the process of making them the same). The scale effects the outcome of a drawing - no matter how much planning goes into it - the size and circumstances (difficulty) of making seep into the process and make it something different and for this version in my study, something better… Perceptions change as well working at different scales…  

The drawing to me, is a record of sorts, a record of ability and inability to control an outcome of a planned process… The hand is what executes the plan…. everything else is what happens…

Richard Serra (American, b. 1939)
Untitled, 1972–1973
Paintstick on paper; 37 13/16 x 50 in.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase with funds from Susan Morse Hilles, 74.10
© Richard Serra
Photo: Sheldan C. Collins

Exhibition info @ http://www.metmuseum.org

Josef Albers
Study for Mexican, n.d.
Oil on paper. JAAF: 2006.2.3
12.38 x 17.145 cm (4.875 x 6.75 inches)
©2007 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

(via Matt Niebuhr | iGNANT)

von Per Thomas | 29.03.2011 | Kunst

Matt Niebuhrs Werke lassen den Betrachter manchmal wortlos vorbeigehen, manchmal reglos verharren. Letzteres ist die bessere Variante, denn der Künstler mit einem Abschluss in Architektur nutzt das Wissen von Objekt und Fläche, um auf der Grenze zwischen Form und Nicht-Form zu wandeln und tut dies nur mit dem Graphit-Stift als sein Ticket zur Reise.

I appreciate the sentiment:  ”… the graphite pencil as his ticket for the journey.”  While making the drawings.. I’m learning to appreciate each endeavor as a journey, the outcome of which is not to get to a destination, but to appreciate the trip.

Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (colored butterfly white background 10 wings)
2004
Colored pencil on paper. Courtesy of Blum and Poe, Los Angeles and Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Photo by Joshua White.

Other “butterflies”