Sheila Hicks: Pillar of Inquiry | ARTIST STORIES
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- Since the 1950s, Sheila Hicks has brought a spirit of continuous discovery to working with fiber, which she calls “supple materials.” She has made everything from minimes-small woven sketches-to massive outdoor installations. She says that while she has no prejudices about materials, “the more pliable they are, and the more adaptable they are, the more I am attracted to them.” Her approach to process is similarly open, challenging the notion that weaving’s warp and weft must follow a grid, wrapping memorable objects in fiber, and even using her materials to puncture ceilings.
This fall we spent the day at MoMA with Hicks, looking at her work and experimenting with the fabric and cords she used to make Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column (2013-14), currently on view in Surrounds: 11 Installations. About this colorful, cascading work, the artist said, “I managed to make something that looked as though it was coming and falling out of the ceiling, or maybe had started on the ground and reached as a pillar of inquiry of looking for something, searching for something.”
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My hands yearned for feeling the texture of each fabric/rope in this video so bad that I had a heightened sensation of blood coursing through my hands - it’s amazing the feelings that art can radiate amongst a person or people even if viewing it through a phone - I can only imagine the beauty of this art piece in person
Blue Letter really caught my attention. i think i'm going to make something like that to channel my thoughts into over the winter break.
the Pillar of Inquiry is also stunning... took my breath away, just from a video recording. i can't imagine how it feels to see it in person.
wonderful work by an interesting artist :)
Very interesting!
Bellissimi! Complimenti bella signora!
Beautiful
Legend!
Well, I’m in love...
4:00 She's barefoot in the gallery!! Maybe it's just the music on this video but her work strikes me as super intimate and reflective... can't wait to see it :)
wonderful\.\.\.\.\.\.
Her comment about the moon was very poignant. Fiber arts practitioners are one of the reasons we’ were able to reach space. Women sewed space suits so fine and carefully, they were air tight. And extremely skilled wire weavers (women who had made the logical jump from natural fiber to the new industry of hand making computer components like memory) helped craft the various computers in the capsules.
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