April 16 — May 15, 2004
CHRISTINE HIEBERT TOM MARIONI	Tom Marioni detail of Process Print, 1970
Two Installations

Margarete Roeder Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of two installations by Christine Hiebert and Tom Marioni from April 16 through May 15, 2004. A reception will be held on Friday, April 16, from 6–8 PM The exhibition will consist of two large installations: Untitled, 2004, by Christine Hiebert and Process Print, 1970, by Tom Marioni, with accompanying works on paper. Christine Hiebert, Wall Drawing 2004   running wall length: 36'7"  height: 11'6" blue adhesive tape Hiebert’s, Untitled, created especially for the gallery’s space, is constructed from blue housepainter’s tape applied directly to the wall. Ironically the tape, usually employed to prevent unwanted marks, becomes the very material employed to create the image. Hiebert eschews any figurative or mimetic image to focus on the production of a work sympathetic to, but not determined by, its architectural situation. Related but distinct in sensibility to her charcoal drawings the wall installations (and the sculptural term is appropriate for these two-dimensional works) celebrate the architectural and the non-orthogonal, the planar and the spatial. As the artist has remarked, “It is an antidote to the fine, hand-drawn line. My work is a search for an architecture sympathetic to a tender and quirky existence in the world.” Marioni’s Process Print is a series of 125 blank sheets that have been run through a litho press with a blank plate, gradually picking up ink with each successive run. Essentially a series of monotypes the sheets comprise an installation that intimates with the greatest economy, at both the temporal—the work resembles huge film strip—and the spatial—by both the variable space occupied and the abstracted landscape that the inked sheets inevitably bring to mind. t.03.21 2003 blue adhesive tape on paper 18 x 23.5"   t.04. 5 2004 blue adhesive tape on paper 18 x 23.5" Christine Hiebert lives and works in New York; her site-specific wall–drawings have been presented at the Drawing Center, New York, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington and the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois. Tom Marioni lives and works in San Francisco, a founder of the Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, he has most recently been the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. For further information and photographs, please contact the gallery. TOP