Sheila Hicks

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Sheila Hicks at the Carnavalet Museum, Paris, 2016. Photo by Cristobal Zanartu.

Sheila Hicks (born in 1934 in Hastings, Nebraska ) is an American artist. She lives and works in Paris . From 1959 to 1963 she lived and worked in Guerrero, Mexico.

Life

Sheila Hicks graduated from the Yale School of Art with a "Bachelor of Fine Art" (BFA) in 1957 and a "Master of Fine Art" (MFA) in 1959. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to Chile (1957–1958), where she photographed archaeological sites in the Andes and traveled to the volcanic regions of Villarrica , Chiloé Island and Tierra del Fuego , which still influences her work. From 1959 to 1964 she lived and worked in Mexico. Hicks has lived in Paris, France, since 1964.

During her time at the Yale School of Art in Connecticut (1954-1959) she studied with Josef Albers , Rico Lebrun, Bernard Chaet, George Kubler , George Heard Hamilton, and Vincent Scully , Jose de Riviera, Herbert Mather, Norman Ives, Gabor Peterdi. Her thesis “Pre-Incaic Textiles.” Was supervised by Junius Bird, archeologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the textile artist Anni Albers .

Henri Peyre , Sterling Professor of French and Emeritus at Yale University , granted Hicks a scholarship to study in France from 1959 to 1960, which allowed her to meet Raoul D'Harcourt, ethnologist and expert in pre-Columbian textiles.

Hicks then moved to Taxco el Viejo, Mexico, where she began weaving, drawing and teaching at the National Autonomous University of Mexico at the invitation of Mathias Goeritz . Goeritz also introduced her to the architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis .

She photographed extensively with her Rolleiflex . Her motifs included the architecture of Felix Candela and other artists active in Mexico.

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Hicks' works range from tiny to monumental. The materials used vary just like the size and shape of their works. Starting her career as a painter, she stayed close to the color, which she uses as the language from which she builds, weaves and wraps her works.

She lets a wide variety of materials flow into her “minimes”, miniature weavings that are made on wooden looms. Examples include clear noodles, pieces of slate, clam shells, shirt collars, sticks of embroidery floss, elastic bands, shoelaces, and Carmelite- stuffed socks. Her temporary installations integrated thousands of caesarean belts, baby shirts, blue nurse blouses, khaki army shirts and wool sheets that were patched by Carmelite nuns.

Hicks' works are characterized by their direct analysis of indigenous web practices in their countries of origin. This has allowed her to travel across five continents and study the local cultures in Mexico, France, Morocco, India, Chile, Sweden, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Africa while establishing relationships with designers, artisans, manufacturers, architects, and cultural politicians Leaders socialized.

In 2007 the book Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor, designed by Irma Boom for the exhibition of the same name at the Bard Graduate Center, was awarded the title “The Most Beautiful Book Worldwide” at the Leipzig Book Fair .

In 2010 a retrospective of Hicks' 50-year career took place at the Addison Gallery in Andover, Massachusetts, USA and other venues at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. These contained both their miniatures ("minimes") and large-format sculptures.

Hicks' works are part of private and public art collections, including: Ford Foundation, NY, 1967; Georg Jensen Center for Advanced Design, NY; Air France Boeing 747 aircraft, 1969-74; TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, NY, 1973; CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), NY; Rochester Institute of Technology, NY; Banque Rothschild, Paris, France; Francis Bouygues, Paris, France; IBM, Paris, France, 1972; Kodak, Paris, France; Fiat Tower, Paris, France; MGIC Investment Corporation, Milwaukee, WI, USA; King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1983; Kellogg's, Michigan; Fuji City, Cultural Center, Japan, 1999; Institute of Advance Study, Princeton, NJ, USA; Target Headquarters, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2003; SD26 Restaurant, NY, 2009; Ford Foundation, NY, USA, 2013-14; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Boulogne, France, 2014–15.

In 2013 the 18 foot (5.5 m) high "Pillar of Inquiry / Supple Column" was exhibited at the Whitney Biennial .

Hicks took part in the Biennale di Venezia from May 13th to November 16th 2017 with the title Viva Arte Viva .

An exhibition of Hicks' works entitled “Lignes de Vie” (Lifelines) opened on February 7th to April 30th, 2018 in Paris at the Center Georges Pompidou .

Solo exhibitions

  • 1958: Tejidos, National Museum of Natural History, Santiago, Chile
  • 1958: “pinturas de saw hicks — fotografias de sergio larrain”, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
  • 1961: Tejidos — Sheila Hicks, Galeria Antonio Souza, Mexico
  • 1963: The Textiles of Sheila Hicks, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • 1963–1966: Sheila Hicks, Knoll International, Nuremberg, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Germany; Basel, Switzerland
  • 1965: Woven Forms and Sculpture: Sheila Hicks, Interiors International (Knoll), London, England
  • 1965: Woven forms, State Museum, Oldenburg, Germany
  • 1970: Fete du Fil, Institut Franco-Americain de Rennes, France; Shapes in Threads, Buchholz Gallery, Munich, Germany; American Library, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1971: Formes de Fil, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest, France
  • 1972: Fils Dansants, Tapis aux Murs de Sheila Hicks, American Cultural Center, Dakar, Senegal; Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; American Center, Milan, Italy
  • 1974: Sheila Hicks, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1976: Mise en Liberte tapestry; Ancient Peruvian Textiles and the Work of Sheila Hicks, Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France
  • 1977: Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Belgrade; Museum of Art, Skopje, Macedonia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; Biblioteca Americana, Bucharest, Romania
  • 1978: Tons and Masses, Sheila Hicks, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
  • 1979: Suite Ouessantine, Musée de Beaux-Arts, Brest, France
  • 1979: Inhabited, American Center, Paris, France
  • 1980: Free Fall, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1980: Small Jump, American Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1981: Carte Blanche, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
  • 1987: Textile, Texture, Texte, Musée de Beaux Arts, Pau, France
  • 1991: Soft Logic, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea; Center Culturel Francais, Seoul, Korea
  • 1992: Cultural Exchange, Walker's Point Center of the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • 1992: Sheila Hicks v Prague, Umeleckoprumyslove Muzeum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
  • 1993: Small Works, Saka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1994: Textile Magician: Sheila Hicks-Junichi Arai, Textile Museet, Boras, Sweden
  • 1996: Art of Sheila Hicks, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska
  • 1997: Sheila Hicks: The Making of a Doncho, Municipal Cultural Center Gallery, Kiryu, Gunma, Japan
  • 1999: Sheila Hicks: Seeds to the Wind, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
  • 2006: Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA
  • 2007: Entrelacs de Sheila Hicks. Textiles et vanneries d'Afrique et d'Océanie de la collection Ghysels, Passage de Retz, Paris France
  • 2008: Sheila Hicks Minimes: Small Woven Works, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. New York, USA
  • 2010: Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts. Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA
  • 2010: Sheila Hicks: Hors norms, sculptures textiles, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
  • 2011: Sheila Hicks - One Hundred Minimes, The Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM), Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2011: Sheila Hicks - 100 Minimes, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 2012: Sheila Hicks, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA
  • 2013: Pêcher dans la Rivière, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
  • 2014: Sheila Hicks, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, USA
  • 2014: Sheila Hicks: Unknown Data, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
  • 2015: Sheila Hicks: Foray into Chromatic Zones, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  • 2016: “Si j'étais de laine, vous m'accepteriez?” Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
  • 2016: Sheila Hicks: Material Voices at Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, Nebraska, USA
  • 2016: “Sheila Hicks, Hilos libres. El textil y sus raíces prehispánicas, 1954–2017 “(Free thread. The textile and its prehispanic roots, 1954–2017), Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
  • 2017: Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
  • 2017: “Stones of Peace”, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
  • 2018: Sheila Hicks: Lignes de Vie, Center Pompidou, Paris, France

Awards

Museum collections

bibliography

  • “Sheila Hicks”, by Monique Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Horay, editeur, Paris, and Suzy Langlois, Art Mural, 1973. ISBN 2-7058-0009-3
  • 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 .
  • One Work: Sheila Hicks at the Mint , published by The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-19085-4 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Smee, Sebastian: Sheila Hicks, weaving her own fabric of modernism . In: The Boston Globe , November 14, 2010. 
  2. ^ A b c 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 .
  3. ↑ SHEILA HICKS with Danielle Mysliwiec .
  4. ↑ Sheila Hicks . 
  5. ↑ Alice Rawsthorn: Reinventing the look (even smell) of a book (en-US) . In: The New York Times , March 18, 2007. 
  6. ↑ Pillar of Inquiry / Supple Column . Archived from the original on April 16, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 26, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / whitney.org
  7. ^ La Biennale di Venezia - Artists . Archived from the original on June 29, 2017.
  8. ^ Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor . Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  9. ↑ Sheila Hicks: Lignes de Vie . Retrieved March 4, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hicks, Sheila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hastings, Nebraska