Achievements: Hicks‘ work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago; solo exhibitions at the Seoul Art Center, Korea; Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Hicks was awarded the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Medal in 2010 and was granted an Honorary Doctorate from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2014. | Name: Sheila Hicks Art Movement: Contemporary Art Born: 1934 in Nebraska Main Medium: Fiber Artist Quote: "My work is not just a construction of yarn balls. It’s a creation of an environment." About the Artist: Earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Yale University. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 1957-58 to paint in Chile. While in South America she developed her interest in working with fibers. [Source] Hicks began her career as a painter. About the Artwork: By stitching, weaving, wrapping, braiding, and twining, Hicks utilizes fiber materials to draw in three-dimensions. Hicks’s colorful works dramatically depict weight and volume, drawing attention to the versatility of textiles and their bodily connection independent of their function. [Source] |
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