About
.../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.
Visit Matt Niebuhr - Works a site featuring my work exclusively. I established my studio practice in the summer of 2012 named "West Branch Studio".
Matt Niebuhr - Drawings a visual journal of my work.
If you are interested in work(s) for purchase please see this or simply email me: niebuhr.matt [at] gmail.com.
Search for content
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…
And introducing breaking the rules. Introducing personality. Introducing prisons, inflatable mattresses, and Don’t Mess with Texas. Introducing a way of discovering how you want to belong and how you can. Introducing a $175 million debt, Learning how to Dougie, Tina Turner and introducing found objects. Introducing cactus blasting, plastic Easter eggs and an exposure that’s one to two cigarettes long. Introducing Erica Allen, Jason Polan, Breanne Trammell, Devon Dikeou, Stephen Watt, Noah Kalina, and Micheal Shelton (the Longboard Kid).
Opening Reception: March 11 6-9PM WORKSOUND 820 SE Alder PDX
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Devon Dikeou From And Introducing…
1991: Ongoing Series Replica of Lobby Directory Board
Announcing Gallery Listing of Artists, Curators, Exhibition Titles, & Dates
(via melanieflood)
Israel Lund has made three beautiful special edition prints to accompany the new version of his book Some, But Not All, of My Clothes. Check them out in the store!
(via publicationstudio)
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
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
Place of the upside down
by Roger Ballen
Just received this print today - worth every penny! Oddness Story sort of to go with it -
This morning, when the mailman was delivering the mail to our front door, he knocks on the door (which seemed sort of odd) and he smiles and hands me the package and he says - “hey - looks like your getting some art” - as he sort of carefully reaches into the mail bag ..
Um yeah - I’m expecting some soon, I’m pretty excited to see how it looks…. and he said you know we love that place here at work (the post office - in Portland) - we usually like to exchange gift certificates to get cool stuff there (20 x 200)….
And he goes on to describe the last print he got was a cool painting of a stack of video tapes and stuff - so 70’-80’s - really great stuff. I’m guessing it’s this
VHS by Hollis Brown Thornton…
So I said yeah, I’m excited - it’s a Roger Ballen print - I’m a big fan … do you know his work? I couldn’t pass up the chance to have a little print. He wasn’t sure about who that was - so I opened the package there on the porch and we both took a bit to look at the print…
Nice pick… Yeah.
Anyway - thought it was cool the mailman knows the 20x200 for more than just delivering the goods!
UPDATE: Article picked up by the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/us/31portland.html?hp
Growing vertical - of course there are a number of technical issues with a green wall / screen of this size / location- not to mention cost of maintenance. Challenges to pick plants that can actually grow (thrive) in the intense microclimate created by the facades of the buildings.
From observation, one can well imagine the things that grow on the south side of the house - likely because they get so much sun / early heat… but you have to water them / mulch them usually for them to thrive… I have to believe that the correct sort of plant can be found to handle the extreme ranges of temperature in this hi-rise case, but then I think we have to stop and ask ourselves - does this plant belong here in this region? What will it take to make the plant thrive? At what cost? What are the ramifications of introducing a non-native plant? I can imagine the effects of the green screen will be great given the harsh conditions in existence in this particular case. What would be even better is to find some way to measure results. How much shading provided by greenery, what are the temperature differences? Would the money be better spent on high performance glass in this case or some other physical, permanence and low maintenance solution - What if the building where wrapped in a stainless steel scrim (low maintenance / recyclable)? Thinking about the options to consider, is a green wall of this size and scale worth the effect or is it a green gimmick?
If nothing else - what can we learn about why the existing building is such a failure when measured against the performance criteria driven by today’s understanding of the environment and energy use?
I’d really like to find out more about the cost/benefit analysis on this project - I think as a taxpayer - paying for this - I should be able to find out what the assumptions are - these should be made public - in a fair and public way…
- Another article by Associated Press - Posted on January 16, 2010 at 2:45 PM: “More recently, green roofs have become established as a way of providing insulation and controlling stormwater runoff, among other benefits, and green walls have begun to emerge as not only pleasing to the eye but also part of highly efficient buildings.
At small scale, green walls can even provide fruits and vegetables, but they are used mostly for energy and environmental benefits: insulation, cleansing urban air, deadening sound, sequestering carbon.”
Plans to upgrade the Federal Building in Portland, Ore., include adding 250-foot-tall trellises with plants to a side of the building and an oversize roof to provide shade.
US General Services Administration/AP
More about the project and some very interesting questions - particularly it would be good to follow up on the question of how this proposal performs in a “life cycle cost / benefit” analysis… What is the “tipping point” at which an intervention such as this makes sense?
