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Hicks

When I first met Sheila Hicks in 1960 in my office at The Museum of Modern Art there were two things that became immediately evident. She was very pregnant. The glow of pregnancy was also in her eyes as she talked to me about her work, her life in Mexico and the exciting fulfillment of both prospects.

Little did I realize that a mysterious thread that forms a cosmic relationship was offered on that day. That thread has been twined, braided, interlaced (sometimes upbraided) but the personal and the professional relationship keeps on its metamorphosis in unimagined directions. It soars like a Brancusi endless column. In a sense Sheila is always pregnant, not with a fetus but with art because art is like giving birth to a baby. You don't know what it's going to be, you don't know how it is going to affect you and the world. 

       
has changed art + art history

So here is Sheila Hicks who needs no introduction, really.