Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks is an American fiber artist (born in Hastings, Nebraska in 1934) who presents textile art as an experience situated between sculpture and performance.
From 1954 to 1959 she studied at Yale University under Josef Albers and Rico Lebrun. Her first interest was in Pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles and traditional techniques of Mexican hand-weaving, which inspired her miniature woven pieces of the early 1960s. Towards the mid-1960s she studied a variety of industrial methods to enlarge the scale of her productions; heavy, woven fabrics were embedded with cotton to add sculptural density. Since 1963 she has lived and worked in Paris and New York.
Her works are in the permanent collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.
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[edit] Current Exhibits
A retrospective "Sheila Hicks: 50 Years" was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts and was on exhibit at the Addison Gallery from 5 November to 27 February 2011 and at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, from 25 March to 7 August 2011. It will be at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1 October 2011 to 29 January 2012.[1] Sheila Hicks: One Hundred Minimes September 22nd—November 6th, 2011 Exhibition hall of UPM Prague, Czech Republic
[edit] Bibliography
- Faxon, Susan C., Joan Simon and Whitney Chadwick: "Sheila Hicks: 50 Years", Yale University Press/Addison Gallery of American Art, 2010, ISBN 978-0300121643.
- Danto, Arthur Coleman, Joan Simon, Nina Stritzler-Levine, and the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture: Sheila Hicks weaving as metaphor, Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780300116854.
[edit] References
- ^ Shonquis Moreno. "Itinerant Artist: Sheila Hicks". American Craft Magazine. http://americancraftmag.org/article.php?id=12220. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
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[edit] External links
- "Sheila Hicks: 50 Years" exhibition site
- Sheila Hicks Homepage
- Wiki entry from the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Essay: "Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor"
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