Jean-Pierre Hébert: Drawing With the Mind
Curated by Elaine LeVasseur

Exploring what is now known as “computational drawing,” Hébert composes computer code to realize mesmerizing images on a variety of plotters. Seeing the computer as a “tool for the mind” and his plotter as a replacement for his hand, he forms a direct connection between his mind and finished works of art.

In the past 30 years, Hébert has become one of our digital generation’s most sophisticated and accomplished masters, linking old and new disciplines, simple and complex technologies, and the cultures of the East and West. Fascinated by the sublime world of nature’s mathematical algorithms and inspired by Chagal, Picasso, and others working near his childhood home in France, Hébert is one of the world’s first artists to co-opt computer code as an essential art tool. He uses programming languages to drive electronic mechanical devices to assist him in making intensely beautiful, meditative, math and physics-based works on paper, sand, water, copper, and other materials.

Major support for this exhibition has been provided by Herbert and Susan DeFriez.  This exhibition was also made possible in part by the generous support of Meris Barreto, Susan Bower, More Cowbell Productions, Joan and William Crawford, Dressed/Ready, Alice Hutchins, Giles Family Foundation, Mary Ince, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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