Just as the American textile industry began its inexorable decline, artists like Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, and Claire Zeisler decided to eschew the machine for other possibilities.
One sweltering afternoon earlier this week, the artist Sheila Hicks was enjoying a blueberry popsicle as she leaned against a railing on the High Line on the far West Side of Manhattan and
Christine Macel's primary intention for the fifty-seventh edition of the Venice Biennale, which she has titled "Viva Arte Viva," becomes apparent as soon as you enter the Central Pavilion in the Giard…
As an artist, Michelle Grabner makes labor-intensive abstractions. As a curator, she runs a gallery in her backyard—and has organized an entire floor of the Whitney's much anticipated show…
Paris, a work by Sheila Hicks, hangs on a wall to the right of the fireplace, over my desk. The piece (10 by 5 inches, 1987) is small and sheer. See-through. It appears to be made from a single thread…
A long overdue retrospective of the work of Nebraska-born, Paris-based artist Sheila Hicks has just opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, the second stop on a three-venue…