Untitled [Green Doorway]Untitled [Green Doorway #1] Photograph

American b. 1969 Artist I am a full-time artist living and working in Des Moines, Iowa. Trained as an architect, I established a studio practice pursuing personal work in the summer of 2012 named "West Branch Studio". I am the creative director and an artist / designer engaged in making public art as Senior Partner with the Art Studio at RDG Planning & Design in Des Moines, Iowa. The works represented here are personal works associated with West Branch Studio. For me, drawing is thinking. Drawing is a fundamental way to explore the relationships of action and reaction. The drawings are records: of the mind (thinking), of the hand (doing) and of the eye (sensing). With my drawing practice, my aim is to investigate the accumulation of lines representing a wide range of work from realistic depiction of form to abstract formlessness. I'm most intrigued by the possibilities of simple lines and the space in between thinking, doing and sensing. www.mattniebuhr.com