Ideas of Housing: Christine Hiebert

Brooklyn-based artist Christine Hiebert 's drawings have been speaking to me for a long time. Her very sensitive and powerful marks explore spacial tension, spontaneity and structure, all elements which I am greatly interested in. Her drawings -- from works on paper to gigantic wall drawings -- are personally evocative in an almost primal sense as they explore the relationships between humanity and physical space. To reference:



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movement and vision





at Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2004

awareness and eloquence



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fragility and strength


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intuition and intellect



at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, 2005

physicality and other-worldliness


in her Brooklyn, NY studio

" If a house is the physical place where I live, where I feel at home," she writes," then my drawings constitute metaphysical houses that allow for the kind of mental living I need to do. That mental living is full of hesitations, fits and starts in my thinking as well as the determination to process headlong into something unknown."

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Hiebert's surfaces give us cause to think of who we are and how we define our own existence -- the lines within which we live and formulate 'home'-- an architecture of humanity.

Thanks, Christine