Sheila Hicks

We have 25 objects that Sheila Hicks has had a hand in. Here's the break-down:

• Artist, 12 objects
• Maker, 8 objects
• Designer, 5 objects

These are a couple of those things by Sheila Hicks in our collection:

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  please don't steal our pictures, yeah?
  Textile, "Nuage", 1990 This object's accession number is 2006-14-9 and is dated 1990 This is from the Textiles department We have 2 images of this object This object was designed by Sheila Hicks

  
  
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  please don't steal our pictures, yeah?
  Textile, "Cicatrices", 1968 This object's accession number is 2006-14-2 and is dated 1968 This is from the Textiles department We have 2 images of this object This object was designed by Sheila Hicks

  
  

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Sheila Hicks (b. 1934) is one of the most important contemporary textile artists of the 20th and 21st century. She went to Yale's School of Art and Architecture where she trained under Josef Albers, eventually becoming a painting major and one of Albers’s top students. While at Yale she became enamored with Pre-Columbian art and textiles and began a research project that led her to South America and Mexico where she learned to weave from local weavers. She would eventually live and work in many countries such as Chile, Peru, India, Thailand, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, France, and the United States.

Wikipedia

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.

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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.

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. Sheila Hicks: One Hundred Minimes September 22nd—November 6th, 2011 Exhibition hall of UPM Prague, Czech Republic

Bibliography

• Faxon, Susan C., Joan Simon and Whitney Chadwick: "Sheila Hicks: 50 Years", Yale University Press/Addison Gallery of American Art, 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-12164-3.
• 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 978-0-300-11685-4.

References

See also

• Fiber art
• Weaving
• Sculpture
• Artists

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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