Christine Hiebert: Ten Drawings

Opening January 17 and running through March 10, The Drawing Room is pleased to present "Christine Hiebert | ten drawings." 

Christine Hiebert has devoted her artistic practice to drawing for 25 years. Her distinct focus on the language of line as an expressive invention of the mind and the body is unique. Using traditional and non-traditional drawing tools, Hiebert's exploration of the art of drawing expands from the intimacy of a sheet of paper to wall installations in museums. This exhibition of 10 drawings reveals the range of her articulate experiments in linear abstraction over the last decade.

For Hiebert, the flat, white surface of a sheet of paper or the rotunda wall of a museum offers a specific site for the investigation of line. The texture and brightness of a sheet of artist's paper or the curve and height of a gallery wall engages her to reach into an elastic universe and "pull lines from thin air.” In these ten important drawings each gesture asserts its posture in the expandable white space, each mark a confirmation of consciousness. The stops and starts of each thin or thick, bold or faint line as it intersects or avoids another, evoke improvisational dance.

See below for full press release and selected works.