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Sheila Hicks: Begin With Thread from Ford Foundation on Vimeo.
 

 


Sheila Hicks, interview, Hayward Gallery, Project Space, London from studio international on Vimeo.

As Leslie Camhi says in her 2011 New York Times Interview with Sheila Hicks, she is a global artist before the term was fashionable — one who adopted the language of textiles as her primary medium and expanded it exponentially.  A quote from an Oct. 2015 story on Wallpaper.com says:

Few artists entering their ninth decade can claim to have their work celebrated at four different venues from here to Espace Louis Vuitton in Munich, the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis and Davis & Langdale simultaneously. Far more than fifty solo exhibitions over the past 20 years celebrate Hick’s distinctive oeuvre in which she weaves wondrous works that cross over into sculpture, installation art and design as well.

Sheila Hicks’ work fills a space with color, form and texture.  It is riotous and righteous, honest and holy (to me, that is, in a pure fiber art kind of way).  One of the great fiber artists of the 20th & 21st century, she knows how to play and be playful, but also present her work seriously – without apology.  I used to think if I could walk in someone’s shoes for a day it might be Tina Turner’s, but at this writing, I would definitely like to walk in Sheila Hicks’ shoes – for awhile.

 




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