Christine Hiebert “Reconnaissance” installation at Davis Museum
WELLESLEY, Mass – Christine Hiebert’s “Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings,” a site-specific wall installation, will be on view at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, through June 2010. Reconnaissance responds to and interacts with the complexity of the light-filled monumental Tanner Gallery designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, also taking into consideration the fifth-century Antioch mosaic permanently mounted on the gallery wall.
Curator Elizabeth Wyckoff writes about the piece: “Utilizing the language of line on a large scale, Hiebert’s art is an exploration of the space: she draws, articulates, and redefines it, evoking a personal, metaphorical, architectural space of her own. Hiebert’s drawings happen directly on the wall in the gallery, intuitively and in the moment.
Composed of blue adhesive tape as well as paper rolled with ink, this multi-part work expressively commands and engages the monumental architectural space of this top floor gallery.”
While creating the work at the Davis, Hiebert spent much of her time walking around the 4000-square-foot room and riding in an elevated lift – as high as 30 feet up into the light-filled vaults, developing a feeling for the room.
“For me, drawing starts with the problem of the line, how to form it and how to follow it,” writes Hiebert. “In a way, it ends with the line, too. The line remains independent, searching, never completely absorbed by the community of its fellows.”
“The blue tape lines are the most “unfastened,” Hiebert continues. “I think of them as being flung out into space to negotiate the unknown. I have spent years sending out this sort of tape line along interior walls of various sites. I use lines to mark out visual footholds for a kind of mental travel—travel that suggests both freedom and belonging in the space. The architecture is fixed, but the mind wanders within it. I think this is how we develop a sense of place. And, the inked lines on paper explore another kind of architecture: the rectangle of a single sheet of paper, and the shape made by the larger ensemble of sheets.”
Hiebert is an artist who is equally at home with the monumental scale of architectural interventions and the intimate scale of drawings on paper; and this spring, an exhibition of her new charcoal and ink drawings, Interventions: New Drawings by Christine Hiebert, will be on view at Victoria Munroe Fine Art, 161 Newbury Street, Boston, from April 15 – May 20, 2010.
Christine Hiebert has created site-specific installations for, among others, the Drawing Center, New York (2003), the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2005), and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (2007); and her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S and Europe. Her drawings are in many public and private collections.
The Davis Museum installation is funded by the Betty B. McAndrew Museum Fund.
DAVIS MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER HOURS AND INFORMATION
Museum hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am-5 pm, Wednesday until 8 pm, and Sunday, noon-4 pm; other times: Tuesday–Friday 12-4 pm Closed Mondays and holidays. Admission is free.
Telephone: 781-283-2051
Web site: www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu
Location: Wellesley College campus, 106 Central Street in Wellesley, Mass.
Parking: Free and available in the lot behind the museum. Additional parking is available in the Davis Parking Facility.
Tours: Wednesdays at 1 pm. Led by student museum mentors and curators. Free. Call 781-283-3382.
Accessible: The Davis Museum, Collins Café and Collins Cinema are wheelchair accessible and wheelchairs are available for use in the museum without charge. Special needs may be accommodated by contacting Director of Disability Services Jim Wice at 781-283-2434 or jwice@wellesley.edu.
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ABOUT THE DAVIS
One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United States, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center is a vital force in the intellectual, pedagogical and social life of Wellesley College. It seeks to create an environment that cultivates critical thinking, inspires new ideas and fosters involvement with the arts both within the College and the larger community.
ABOUT WELLESLEY COLLEGE & THE ARTS
Wellesley has been collecting and exhibiting visual art since 1889 — making the College one of the first liberal arts institutions to establish a teaching collection. The Wellesley arts curriculum and its highly acclaimed Davis Museum and Cultural Center are integral and irreplaceable components of the College’s liberal arts education. Wellesley also offers many outstanding exhibits, performances and lectures that are free of charge and open to the public.
Since 1875, Wellesley College has been a leader in providing an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world. Its 500-acre campus near Boston is home to 2,300 undergraduate students from all 50 states and 75 countries.
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