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The Merrin Gallery

724 Fifth Avenue
(at 57th Street)
New York, NY 10019

212 757-2884


SHEILA HICKS
SMALL WEAVING 

From November 8 to 29, The Merrin Gallery will present twenty small weavings by Sheila Hicks. The exhibition will also include two larger works typical of her monumental textile sculpture and tapestries.

Sheila Hicks' commissioned works, such as those for the Ford Foundation in New York, the American Embassy in Moscow, King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, and the National Assembly in Paris, have sometimes overshadowed her lesser known small weavings made of silk, cotton, wool, and metallic thread. There intimate pieces highlight her extraordinary use of color and intricate structures.

Born in 1934 in Hastings, Nebraska, Hicks studied painting with Josef Albers at Yale University. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, she researched Precolumbian textiles and architecture in South America and made exhibitions of her paintings and experimental weavings at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile in 1958. Completing her masters degree at Yale a year later, she taught color and design in the architecture department of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico until 1964. There she met and worked with Luis Barragan and Matias Goeritz.

A Fribourg grant enabled her to continue studying in France. Hicks established her studio in Paris and has worked and lived there the past 25 years, using it as a base to develop her work in India, Morroco, Israel and Europe. Her achievements have been recognized by the American Institute of Architects and the French Institute of Architecture. A prolific artist, she has had an early retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The Museum of Modern Art displays her "Evolving Tapestry", an example of the textile art revolution of the 1960s. 

A book is in preparation tracing the evolution of her work and exhibitions will be made in Tokyo, Prague, and Aubusson.

hours: Tuesday - Thursday 10-6; Friday & Saturday 10-5.