Christine Hiebert’s works on paper and wall installations investigate the nature and language of line. Early study of typography and letterforms trained her in the nuance of gesture, and to see the subtle relationships between marks and their counterspaces. This sensitivity guides the drawing language she uses to explore ‘conditions of being’ in the world, human and other. Making a drawing becomes a way of tuning in to how individuals respond to their environment, one that is often unstable, changing. It is a means to understand how one thing affects another.
She works with traditional and nontraditional media in small- and large-scale drawings on paper, often bringing attention to material differences within a drawing, and how different media can work in symbiosis. Since 2000, she has also created site-specific wall installations using tape and other materials, engaging dynamics of the human body and architectural spaces.
In 2024, Hiebert was awarded a Gottlieb Foundation grant. Recent solo exhibitions include “zwischen” in 2023, at Kunsthaus St. Josef in Solothurn, Switzerland, which featured a site-specific room-drawing in the apse of a former baroque church, in dialogue with an adjacent installation of a new drawings on paper. Her 2021 exhibition “Restless” at Victoria Munroe Fine Art in New York City featured recent drawings in color. Her work has been shown at The Morgan Library and Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Drawing Center NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA and other museums in the U.S. and Europe. Past installation sites for monumental wall drawings include the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany, and The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, in Wellesley, MA. Hiebert is based in Brooklyn, NY, working periodically in more remote parts of the U.S.