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Catalogue
- Year
- 1990
- Dimensions
- 91.5 × 160.1 cm (36 × 63 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Sheila Hicks
Artist
Textile
Sheila Hicks is an American fiber artist and weaver whose practice spans sculpture, installation, and architectural textile design. Working primarily with cotton, linen, and wool, she creates monumental woven forms and wall-based compositions that treat thread as a sculptural material capable of defining space. Since the 1960s, her tactile abstractions have challenged the distinction between craft and fine art, establishing weaving as a medium of architectural and conceptual ambition. Her work engages color theory, geometry, and the spatial properties of suspended and wrapped textiles.
New York, USA and Paris, France
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Minime (Four Tunnels of Exploration)
2015 · Wool, linen, cotton, razor clam shells
Minime
2014 · Linen and silk
Pillar of Inquiry/Supple Column
2013 · Acrylic fiber
Steichen's Pond
1995 · Pieces of paper; stitched with cotton and polyester with spots of plain interlacings and darning stitches; knotted fringe
Battle Strategy
1990 · Hand-made paper (washi); stitched with silk thread
Weft Wandering Astray
1985 · Linen and silk, bands of plain weave open work with discontinuous wefts and supplementary brocading weft, warp-float faced twill weave, and plain weave self-patterned with main warp floats; main warp fringe
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- Sheila Hicks
- Year
- 1990
- Dimensions
- 91.5 × 160.1 cm (36 × 63 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1990-144343
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified