Series: nine squares / nine points of radiating lines
2011_01
graphite on paper
each 18" x 24" (45.72 x 45.72 cm)
Matt Niebuhr
untitled (lines “y” from / towards the center)
2011_01_25
graphite on polyester drafting film
42” x 42” (106.68 x 106.68)cm
43 5/8” x 43 5/8” custom framed - baltic birch
$675 + shipping
Matt Niebuhr
Some thoughts on line drawings:
A wonderful thing about drawing a line is that it can be any number of things. These drawings are some possible representations of the idea of a line.
One line is not necessarily any more important or informative than any other line, but if it is assigned a representative value, it can become important, it becomes symbolic.
Strictly speaking, a line is 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 in some ways just a means to illustrate the idea of a line on paper. The line drawn on paper is always only at first, just a representation of the idea of a line.
In this sense, we can really only imagine the idea of a line, it can not be seen with our eyes directly, but indirectly, as an approximate representation. A line as an idea drawn, is I think, a beautiful thing in all of its imperfect representation.
Exhibition: Matt Niebuhr - Drawings
March, 2011
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
4525 SE Division Street
Portland, Oregon 97206
