Elevation
Zachary House
http://www.archdaily.com/282552/the-zachary-house-stephen-atkinson-architecture/

mattniebuhrdrawings:

untitled (cubic forms)
2012_02_22 
graphite on paper 
11” x 14” (27.9 x 35.6)cm 
Matt Niebuhr 
www.mattniebuhr.com

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Happy to be sending this out soon to a private collection

Thank-you!

Anne Lindberg
motion drawing 14
2011 
graphite & colored pencil on cotton board
34 by 28 inches 

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.

Visit: http://mattniebuhrworks.bigcartel.com/category/karma and use DISCOUNT CODE: KARMA01 

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

Enjoy.

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

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)

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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 … “

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…

Nasreen Mohamedi (Indian, 1937–1990). 
Untitled. c. 1970
Graphite and ink on paper
18 11/16 x 18 11/16” (47.5 x 47.5 cm).
Private collection. Courtesy Talwar Gallery, New York/New Delhi.
© 2010 Estate of Nasreen Mohamedi

More…

untitled (lines “y” from / towards the center)
2011_01_25
graphite on polyester drafting film 
42” x 42” (106.68 x 106.68)cm
Matt Niebuhr

On exhibit - March 2011,  Stumptown - on Division st.

Line: A geometrical object that is straight, infinitely long and infinitely thin. A line is one-dimensional. It has zero width (in mathematics).

If you draw a line with a pencil, the pencil mark has a measurable width. The pencil line is therefor just a way to illustrate the idea of a line on paper. The line drawn on paper (or drawn on any other media visible to the eye) is always only just a representation of the idea of a line.

Again, strictly speaking, the idea of a line is that it has zero width and infinite length - in this sense we can not see with our eyes the idea of a line directly - only indirectly, as an approximate representation.

This does not seem to bother anyone… (me included - though it does cause me to wonder…)

Sometimes, just a simple line can be quite beautiful… my preference is to see representations of lines, drawn by hand.  Words are not literature until given a specific order, numbers are not mathematics…

detail: untitled, (where is love / where love is ?)
2011_01_14
red polymer lead and graphite lead on polyester drafting film 
18” x 24” (45.7 x 60.9)cm
Matt Niebuhr

Currently showing: Portland Love Show 2011

untitled, basalt shard #2 - 4 segments
2011_01_09
graphite on polyester drafting film 
18” x 24” (45.7 x 60.9)cm
Matt Niebuhr

sometimes, one thing leads to another, sometimes…