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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.

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

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Anne Lindbergmotion drawing 142011 graphite & colored pencil on cotton board34 by 28 inches 

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

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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Donald JuddUntitled, 1962Woodcut on paper, trial proofPrivate collection

Donald Judd
Untitled, 1962
Woodcut on paper, trial proof
Private collection

Linda HutchinsRight Hand Switch 2011  India ink on watercolor paper  11”h x 17”w
MAY 31 - JULY 2, 2011Back 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…

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)cmMatt Niebuhr ” … the ten thousand things … “

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 … “

Sol LeWittHorizontal Lines, 2005gouache on paper60 x 89 3/4 in. (152.4 x 228 cm)
L.A. Louver gallery

Sol LeWitt
Horizontal Lines, 2005
gouache on paper
60 x 89 3/4 in. (152.4 x 228 cm)

L.A. Louver gallery

untitled, #1 graphite line2011_04_18china marker and graphite over graphite wash on paper48” x 48” (121.92 x 121.92) cmMatt 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…

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…

Max ColeClearlight, 2010Acrylic on linen16 x 19 inchesHG10846
See also
Some interesting works that appear to be made through an accumulation of lines (marks) transforming small singular marks (action) into a larger mark, overall picture is both detailed and with a singular concentration…  a sort of aggregate image, a slow and steady hum - yet not quite static..

Max Cole
Clearlight, 2010
Acrylic on linen
16 x 19 inches
HG10846

See also

Some interesting works that appear to be made through an accumulation of lines (marks) transforming small singular marks (action) into a larger mark, overall picture is both detailed and with a singular concentration…  a sort of aggregate image, a slow and steady hum - yet not quite static..

detail: untitled (line studies - #1 - three target construction)2011_02_13graphite on paper18” x 23 3/8” (45.7 x 59.4)cmMatt 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…

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…

untitled (line studies - #1 - two target construction)
2011_01
graphite on paper
18” 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)

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)

Anne Lindberg
slips and shifts2008 

Art Meet Architecture,  Architecture Meet Art


Private commission: custom glazing, dual layer ceramic frit. 52 total custom panels, 4’ by 10’ each, approximately 200’ drawing in glass.Owner: Botwin & CompanyArchitect: el dorado architects75th and Washington StreetsKansas City, Missouri

Anne Lindberg

slips and shifts
2008 


Art Meet Architecture,  Architecture Meet Art

Private commission: custom glazing, dual layer ceramic frit. 52 total custom panels, 4’ by 10’ each, approximately 200’ drawing in glass.

Owner: Botwin & Company
Architect: el dorado architects

75th and Washington Streets
Kansas City, Missouri

listen… (via NPR)
Stichometry -  a term applied to the measurement of ancient texts ”rows” or verses of a fixed standard length.  In poetical works the number of metrical verses was computed; in prose works a standard line had to be taken, for no two scribes would naturally write lines of the same length.The object of such stichometrical calculations was a commercial one, viz. to assess the pay of the scribe and the market value of the manuscript.sourcealso… Jay Kennedy, University of Manchester

listen… (via NPR)

Stichometry -  a term applied to the measurement of ancient texts ”rows” or verses of a fixed standard length.  In poetical works the number of metrical verses was computed; in prose works a standard line had to be taken, for no two scribes would naturally write lines of the same length.

The object of such stichometrical calculations was a commercial one, viz. to assess the pay of the scribe and the market value of the manuscript.

source

also… 

Jay Kennedy, University of Manchester