CHRISTINE HIEBERT LINE AND FIELD
CHRISTINE HIEBERT
MARCH 2019
2 SAINT JAMES COURT, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 215.592.7752 INFO@GALLERYJOE.COM WWW.GALLERYJOE.COM
CHRISTINE HIEBERT LINE AND FIELD A SELECTION OF RECENT DRAWINGS
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DRAWING Christine Hiebert’s unhurried way of working, and her willingness to be open to time, embodies an implicit faith both in process and inthe viewer. Working within a domain encompassing the inchoate andthe decisive, the unnamed and the named, she draws on walls and sheets of paper… Drawing is her way of slowing down time, of examining how it can be shaped even as it shapes her.1 John Yau
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LINE AND FIELD The gestural mark recalls acts of handwriting. It reveals the unrest, the activity, in a thought. In the field of the paper lie great hope and possibility. The notated thought, the material line, and the illusion of space and depth, all converge here.
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Untitled (mm.18.15), 2018, charcoal on paper, 42.5 x 31 inches
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Untitled (mm18.13), 2018, charcoal and masking tape on paper, 28.5 x 21 inches, private collection
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Untitled (mm.18.12), 2018, charcoal, graphite, and earth on blue tape, on paper, 30 x 22 inches
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Untitled (sc.15.1), 2015 charcoal and pastel on paper, 30 x 22 inches
Untitled (sc.15.1), 2015, charcoal and pastel on paper, 30 x 22 inches
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Untitled (sc.12.2), 2012, charcoal and block-printing ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches
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Untitled (rd.13.7), 2013, charcoal and block-printing ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches
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MARK charcoal graphite pencil crayon pastel contĂŠ block-printing ink black gesso tape earth color
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Untitled (mm.16.31), 2016, graphite, yellow ochre, and blue tape on paper, 30 x 22 inches Collection of The Morgan Library and ยบMuseum
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Untitled (mm.16.26), 2016, color pencil, pastel, charcoal, block-printing ink, brick dust, yellow ochre, and blue tape on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (rd.13.8), 2013, block-printing ink, charcoal, blue tape, and color pencil on paper, 22 x 30 inches
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Untitled (rd.13.5), 2013, charcoal and block-printing ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches
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Untitled (mm.17.40), 2017, color pencil, crayon, graphite, earth, masking tape, and black ink on blue tape, on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (mm.17.25) , 2017, color pencil, crayon, graphite, charcoal, and ink on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (cm.16.13), 2016, color pencil, crayon, graphite, and earth on blue tape, on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (cm.18.2), 2018, color pencil, crayon, graphite, and masking tape on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (cm.18.1), 2018, crayon and graphite on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (cm.18.5), 2018, color pencil, crayon, pastel, and graphite on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (cm.16.10), 2016, color pencil, crayon, and graphite on paper, 40 x 26 inches
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Gallery Joe / Art On Paper 2016, New York NY
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SCALE In the summer of 2010, I worked in an old adobe house in Taos. From the yard I could see Taos Mountain. Everywhere I went in northern New Mexico, the earth presented itself in astonishing forms, often towering above me. The weight of earth made me feel grounded at times, and disoriented at others. Shifts in scale were extreme—I watched the smallest lifeforms make their way across vast faces of rock. Meanwhile the wind labored at the mountain, taking it away in bits.
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Untitled (rdl.10.3), 2010, block-printing ink, charcoal, and graphite on paper, 50 x 42 inches
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Untitled (rdl.11.5), 2011, block-printing ink on paper, 50 x 42 inches
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Untitled (rdl.12.2), 2012, block-printing ink and charcoal on paper, 50 x 42 inches
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all images: in studio, Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos NM, 2010
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three images at right: experiments in drawing with light, a photo collaboration with Teresa Tamura, photographer (in which drawings on paper are hung from the beams of adobe studio at WF)
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Untitled (rdl.12.6), 2012, block-printing ink, charcoal, and graphite on paper, 50 x 42 inches
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Untitled (rdl.13.6), 2013 charcoal and block-printing ink on paper, 50 x 38 inches
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Untitled (rdl.13.5), 2013 charcoal and block-printing ink on paper, 50 x 38 inches
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left: Up exhibition, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, 2010 middle: Ten Drawings exhibition, Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton NY, 2014 right: Lines and Spaces exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford University Art Galleries, Hartford CT, 2013
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Untitled (rdl.12.5), 2012–2018, charcoal and block-printing ink on paper, 100 x 42 inches, private collection
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Untitled (rdl.13.1), 2013, charcoal and blockprinting ink on paper, 100 x 42 inches
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Untitled (rdl.18.2), 2018 charcoal and blockprinting ink on paper, 100 x 42.5 inches
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Untitled (rdl.14.1), 2014 charcoal on paper, 100 x 42.5 inches
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left: Space for the Mark exhibition, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, 2013 middle: Force Field exhibition, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY, 2018, in which nine 100-inch plus vertical drawings were hung
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Untitled (rdl.18.1), 2018, block-printing ink, charcoal, and black ink on blue tape, on paper, 140 x 42 inches
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EARTH Geology reveals the gestures of the earth. We interact with its energies and movements which are much older and slower than our own, so slow it is hard to notice. Even so, the earth seems restless, moving constantly.
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Untitled (mmg.18.1), 2018, block-printing ink, black gesso, earth, and blue tape on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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page 76: Untitled (mmgl.18.3), 2018, block-printing ink, black gesso, and blue tape on Yupo, 80 x 50 inches page 77: Untitled (mmgl.18.5), 2018, block-printing ink, black gesso, and blue tape on Yupo, 75 x 50 inches
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page 79: Untitled (mmgl.18.8), 2018, block-printing ink, black gesso, and blue tape on Yupo, 70 x 50 inches
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Untitled (mms.17.21), 2017, block-printing ink and blue tape on paper, d60 x 40 inches
Untitled (mm.18.4), 2018, block-printing ink, black gesso, earth, and blue tape on Yupo, 80 x 50 inches
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top row: Untitled (mm.16.34), 2016; Untitled (mm.18.22), 2018; and Untitled (mm.18.20), 2018 all: block printing ink, blue tape on paper, 40 x 26 inches
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bottom row: Untitled (mm.16.33), 2016; Untitled (mm.18.23), 2018; and Untitled (mm.18.21), 2018 all: block printing ink, blue tape on paper, 40 x 26 inches
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in studio, Brooklyn NY, 2018
left: in studio, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA, 2018 right: outside of studio, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough NH, 2018
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Untitled (mmw.16.2), 2016, block-printing ink, black gesso, earth on blue tape, on plastic on the wall, 41 x 75 inches
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pages 90–91: details (mm.19.6 and mm.18.5) Untitled (mm.18.2), 2018, earth and black ink on blue tape, on paper, 18 x 23.5 inches, private collection
Untitled (mm.18.5), 2018, earth and black ink on blue tape, and masking tape on paper, 18 x 23.5 inches
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Untitled (mm.19.8), 2019, earth and black ink on blue tape, on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
Untitled (mm.19.2), 2019, earth and black ink on blue tape, on paper, 23.5 x 18 inches
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Untitled (mm.16.1), 2016, block-printing ink, black ink and earth on blue tape, on paper, 19 x 23.5 inches
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WALL I approach the blank wall with the urge to abide there, to inhabit it. Line flung into space negotiates the unknown. Even as it physically adheres to the wall, a length of blue tape can feel the most “unfastened” of drawing media. The tape itself is a throwaway material. And then there’s the blue which visually hovers on a plane in front of the wall—or, alternately, seems to push through it. The architecture of the room is fixed, but the mind wanders within it. This is how we develop a sense of home, of place. In my home, I travel.
pages 110–111: Wall Drawing, partial view, The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY, 2004, blue tape on wall
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this spread: working wall drawings in studio, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2018, blue tape, and black ink on blue tape, on wall
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Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings, four partial views, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, 2008–9, blue tape on wall; ink on paper sheets, collaged on wall
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RoundTrip: Wall Drawing for the Rotunda, two partial views, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Germany, 2005–6, blue tape on wall
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RoundTrip, installation in progress
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above and right: Wall Drawing, Drawing Center, New York NY, 2003, blue tape on wall; in the exhibition Selections 2003: Internal Excess
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page 112–113: in studio, Jentel Foundation, Banner WY, 2014
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Untitled (cg.17.1), 2017, color pastel, crayon, charcoal and graphite on paper, 15 x 11 inches
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left: Untitled (cg.17.5), 2017, color pastel, pencil, crayon, and contĂŠ on paper, 20 x 13 inches right: Untitled (cg.17.10), 2017color pastel, pencil, crayon, and contĂŠ on paper, 20 x 13 inches
left: Untitled (cg.17.13), 2017, color pastel, pencil, crayon, and contÊ on paper, 20 x 13 inches right: Untitled (cg.17.7), 2017, color pastel, pencil, crayon, and contÊ on paper, 20 x 13 inches pages 116–117: in studio, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2018
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Untitled (cg.18.21), 2018, color pastel, pencil, and crayon on paper, 26 x 20 inches
Untitled (cg.18.20), 2018 , color pastel, pencil, and crayon on paper, 40 x 26 inches
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Christine Hiebert lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA ACT Art Collection / Siegfried Loch, Munich Germany Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AR Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin TX Boise Art Museum, Boise ID Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville ME Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu HI Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge MA The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH Kolumba Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, New York NY Krannert Art Museum, University of Chicago, Urbana-Champaign IL The Menil Collection, Houston TX The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY The Morgan Library and Museum, New York NY Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston TX The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe NM New York University, New York NY The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks AK Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ SITE LIST OF PUBLIC WALL DRAWINGS 2009
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
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Margarete Roeder Gallery / Art Cologne, Cologne Germany
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA
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Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY
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Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA
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Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Germany
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Margarete Roeder Gallery / Art Cologne, Cologne Germany
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The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY
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Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY
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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara CA
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Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE
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The Drawing Center, New York NY
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Krannert Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL
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ONE- AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2018 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers NY, Force Field: Drawings by Christine Hiebert 2016 Art on Paper Fair NYC / Gallery Joe, Christine Hiebert 2014 The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY, Christine Hiebert: Ten Drawings School of Design Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA, Christine Hiebert: Core Samples 2013 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Space for the Mark 2011 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, Up: Christine Hiebert 2010 Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston MA, Christine Hiebert / Interventions: New Drawings 2009 Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, Christine Hiebert: Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings 2009 ArtON, Bonn, Germany, Christine Hiebert: The Way Through 2008 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Search Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, Current Lines 2007 Kemper Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS, Christine Hiebert: Wall Drawing 2006 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston MA, Christine Hiebert: Charcoal 2005 Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Germany, RoundTrip: A Wall Drawing for the Rotunda 2004 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, Christine Hiebert/Tom Marioni–Two Installations Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Drawing as Structure: Works in Blue Tape, Charcoal, and Graphite Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston MA, Christine Hiebert: Drawings 2002 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Christine Hiebert: Drawings 2000 560 Broadway / Wynn Kramarsky Collection, New York NY, Christine Hiebert: Drawings 1999 Damasquine Art Gallery, Brussels Belgium, Christine Hiebert: Drawings GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 The Morgan Library and Museum, New York NY, By Any Means 2018 Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Spatial Flux 2017 University of Richmond Museums, Richmond VA, Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing l Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin ME, Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawing at Bowdoin College l Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO, Walk the Distance and Slow Down: Selections from the Collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey l Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, Summer’s Coming 2016 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA, Eye on the Collection l Drive-By Projects, Watertown MA, Wood + Paper + Earth l Szygny, Joann Hickey-Gonzalez Collection, New York NY, Music to My Ears: Alexander Gorlitzky, Christine Hiebert, and Lynne Woods Turner 2015 The Morgan Library and Museum, New York NY, Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions l Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Selections from Amsterdam Drawing 2014 Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston TX, Line: Making the Mark l University of Buffalo Museum, Buffalo NY, Art=Text=Art: Private Languages / Public Systems l The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY 2013 Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT, Lines and Spaces l Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjör∂ur, Iceland, Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists 2012 Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists l Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis MO, Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process l Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin ME, Motion and Emotion: Contemporary Art from Gerhard Richter to Chakaia Booker l Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA, summer installation l Kolumba, Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne Germany, Artist Books from the Missmahl Collection
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2011 University of Richmond Museums, Richmond VA, Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists l Katonah Museum, Katonah NY, Drawn/Taped/Burned 2010 Julie Saul Gallery, New York NY, The Pencil of Nature l Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Prints by Gallery Artists 2009 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, Selected Drawings l Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston MA, New Work, New Walls l Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia Spain, New York/New Drawings 2008 Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston MA, Ten Artists Ten Walls 2007 Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, Live/Work: Performance into Drawing l Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, Trace Elements l Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, What Is a Line? Drawings from the Collection l Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA, Models as Muse l Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, Paint It Blue: Works from the ACT Art Collection/ Siegfried Loch l Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, Selected Works l Von Lintel Gallery, New York NY, Drawing/Thinking 2006 The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY, Stephen Antonakos, Jameson Ellis, Christine Hiebert, Sharon Horvath, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Joan Waltemath 2005 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston MA, Presence l Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY, Drawings, Watercolors, Collages l The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY, Wall Projects and Drawings: Suzanne Bocanegra, Alastair Gordon, Christine Hiebert, Pat Pickett, Katherine Porter 2004 The Drawing Room, East Hampton NY, Wall Projects: Roger Ackling, Christine Hiebert, Kate Shepherd l Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME, Exquisite Corpse 2003 The Drawing Center, New York NY, Selections Fall 2003: Internal Excess l The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper l Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH, Drawings of Choice: From a New York Collection l Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara CA, Fine Lines: From the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky l Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Graphite and Paper l Georgia Museum of Art, Athens GA, Drawings of Choice: From a New York Collection l University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection 2002 Arkansas Museum of Art, Little Rock AR, Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection l Galerie Eva Mack, Stuttgart, Germany, Contemporary Drawing l Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Summer Drawing Show 2001 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Taking Stock l Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston MA, Drawings l Exit Art, New York NY, Collector’s Choice II l Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro NC, Finely Drawn: A Recent Gift of Contemporary Drawings 2000 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia PA, Introducing l Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, Contemporary American Drawings from the Sally and Werner H. Kramarsky Collection 1999 Landesgalerie Oberösterreich am OÖ. Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria, The Art of the Line l Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels Belgium, Sheroes l Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco CA, New Work: Drawing 1998 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT, Large-Scale Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky 1994 Larry Becker Gallery, Philadelphia PA EDITIONS Continuum, artist book, edition of 300; plus two silkscreen prints, edition of 30. Book text by Christine Hiebert and Corinna Thierolf, Chief Curator, Pinakothek der Moderne. Published by Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and Edition Schellmann, New York/Munich, 2006.
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MANY DRAWINGS IN THIS CATALOG WERE PRODUCED WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS: DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE FIFTH FLOOR FOUNDATION AT 560 BROADWAY JENTEL FOUNDATION THE MACDOWELL COLONY UCROSS FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS HELEN RIABOFF WHITELEY CENTER WILLAPA BAY ARTIST RESIDENCY THE HELENE WURLITZER FOUNDATION ALL ARTWORKS © 2019 CHRISTINE HIEBERT ALL WORKS ON PAPER ARE UNTITLED, AND IDENTIFIED BY THE CATALOG NUMBERS SHOWN TEXT ON PAGE 2 © 2012 JOHN YAU, IN
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VITAZZZMIN D2: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN DRAWING, PHAIDON PRESS, 2012 TEXT IN ITALIC © 2018 CHRISTINE HIEBERT PHOTOGRAPHY: PAGES 14–15, 66–69, 71–79 BY ALAN WIENER PAGES 54–55 BY TERESA TAMURA PAGE 63 BY JOSELOFF GALLERY PAGE 84 AT RIGHT BY ROBERT MARSHALL PAGES 104–107, 120 BY HAYDAR KOYUPINAR, BAYERISCHE STAATSGEMÄLDESAMMLUNGEN, MUNICH GERMANY PHOTOGRAPHY ON ALL OTHER PAGES IS COURTESY OF THE ARTIST DIGITAL VERSION PUBLISHED IN 2019 BY GALLERY JOE 2 SAINT JAMES COURT, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 215.592.7752 INFO@GALLERYJOE.COM WWW.GALLERYJOE.COM ISBN: 978-1-7923-0599-3 (DIGITAL) ISBN: 978-0-578-47252-2 (PRINT)
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cover detail: Untitled (mm.18.15), 2018, charcoal on paper