{"id":2221409,"date":"2026-01-04T06:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2221409"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:11:11","slug":"artist-sheila-hicks-were-crying-for-softness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/artist-sheila-hicks-were-crying-for-softness\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Sheila Hicks: We&#8217;re Crying for Softness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WNv_24tFM5s?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\u201cArt is a big word.\u201d  We visited Sheila Hicks, one of the most fascinating artists of our time, who, in her 90s, continues to work and surprise herself every day. <\/p>\n<p>\u201dI don&#8217;t remember when I got interested in art. I don&#8217;t remember when it began. It wasn&#8217;t a conscious decision. I&#8217;m still not sure what it means. I know what I like to do, and I am trying to figure out how to do it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201dSitting in the back of a car as a child, you&#8217;re a hostage. You look out the window. What&#8217;s going on out there sparks your imagination. You wonder if you could be a participant. If you climbed out of the car, you could become part of another existence. I&#8217;m still thinking the same way. For me, moving around, working, looking out the window causes me to imagine different existences simultaneously.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In this personal interview, Sheila Hicks reflects upon her life, her accidental but formative meeting with Josef Albers at Yale University, and her discovery of the world of textiles. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very alert to how people package themselves. What they choose to live with on their own bodies. So, while painting and drawing, I always had textiles. I was surrounded by them, anywhere I went. Textiles appealed to me, and I was trying to figure out how they were made. I was fascinated like a crossword puzzle. How is this? Is this a single thread? Or is it two networks of threads that interlace in different positions and become a weaving, a textile, or a tapestry? I have always been sensitive to textiles.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the world we live in with so many hard things that we touch, we&#8217;re crying for softness. We&#8217;re all yearning for something that is warm, welcoming, and soft in the hard, hard world. What better than textiles and fiber? I&#8217;ve often repeated this: everybody knows that from the time you&#8217;re born until you die, you&#8217;re enveloped in textiles. So why not the best? And why not the ones you like the best and the ones you feel the best in?\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Sheila Hicks was born in Hastings, Nebraska, and received her BFA and MFA degrees from Yale University. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 1957-58 to paint and teach in Chile. While in South America, she developed her interest in working with fibres. After founding workshops in Mexico, Chile, and South Africa and working in Morocco and India, she now divides her time between her Paris studio and New York.\u202f\u200b <\/p>\n<p>Hicks has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. She\u202fwas included\u202fin the 2017 Venice Biennale, the 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York,\u202fand the\u202f2012\u202fS\u00e3o Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Recent solo presentations include Lignes de Vie at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2018), Free Threads 1954-2017 at the Museo Amparo, Mexico (2017), and P\u00eacher dans La Rivi\u00e8re at the Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2013).\u202fA major retrospective\u202fSheila Hicks: 50 Years\u202fdebuted at the Addison Gallery of American Art and travelled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.\u202f <\/p>\n<p>Hicks\u2018 work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Victoria &#038; Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the\u202fMuseum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago;\u202fsolo exhibitions at the Seoul Art Center, Korea; Israel Museum, Jerusalem. <\/p>\n<p>Sheila Hicks was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in November 2021 and in her studio in November 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Camera: Mark Nickels (2021) and Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan (2025)<br \/>\nEdit: Roxanne Bagheshirin L\u00e6rkesen<br \/>\nProduced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner<br \/>\nCopyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2025 <\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. M\u00f8llerske St\u00f8ttefond and Ny Carlsbergfondet.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel for more videos on art: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/thelouisianachannel<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW US HERE:<br \/>\nWebsite: http:\/\/channel.louisiana.dk<br \/>\nInstagram: http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/louisianachannel<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LouisianaChannel<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNv_24tFM5s\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArt is a big word.\u201d We visited Sheila Hicks, one of the most fascinating artists of our time, who, in her 90s, continues to work and surprise herself every day. \u201dI don&#8217;t remember when I got interested in art. I don&#8217;t remember when it began. It wasn&#8217;t a conscious decision. 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