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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.
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two sittings: totaling 1 hour and 53 minutes
discarding the rules
extending the commitment of time
progression— a feeling of falling
a fear of failing
and compulsion wins over
rationalization and obligation(this is quite possibly my favorite of this series thus far)
Really nice explorations - !
Twill Series (Maroon Brown), 2012
Hand-woven and hand-dyed linen
24 x 40 inches
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)
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
availablefor purchase here - Thanks!Two Targets is now part of a private collection…!
(via cosascool)
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 … “
On Drawing: Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium, by Anna Lovatt
Found via: drawing paper / www.drawingdialogues.blogspot.com
Very much worth reading - if you might have an interest in drawing as a primary practice…
Like Martin’s gridded canvases, LeWitt’s wall drawings drain the graphic mark of autographic flourishes and demonstrations of technique, approaching something akin to Roland Barthes’s ‘writing degree zero’: a ‘style of absence which is almost an ideal absence of style’. - On Drawing: Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium, by Anna Lovatt
The near absence of style - as the near absence of the “hand of the artist” I interpret as just another form of style - to me there is an important difference between the “life” of a line (before it becomes a representational element). The perception changes completely when a line is drawn by free hand, or ruled, or with the aid of a machine (plotted drawing) or computer generated (mediated)…
Sol LeWitt
Horizontal Lines, 2005
gouache on paper
60 x 89 3/4 in. (152.4 x 228 cm)
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…
