Sheila Hicks

Publisher: Walther & Franz Konig

Year: 2025

Format: Hardcover

Edition: First

Condition: New

A comprehensive catalogue has been published to accompany the collaborative exhibition Sheila Hicks at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. The publication explores the full scope of American artist Sheila Hicks’s oeuvre and documents both exhibitions.

Sheila Hicks’ unique practice unfolds in the interplay between material, color, and space: in large and small-format wall works, tapestries, reliefs, sculptures, and installations, the seemingly infinite possibilities of these three dimensions unfurl. “What can you do with thread?” is the question that the artist has tirelessly explored since studying with Josef Albers at the Yale School of Art in the 1950s. In her pursuit, she has developed a wide spectrum of techniques that constantly challenge and surprise our perception and our concepts of art and textile, color and structure, work and space.

Held jointly at the Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the exhibition will survey Hicks’ entire oeuvre.  It brings together works from the period from 1955 to 2024, including early paintings from Hicks’ time as a student of Josef Albers that have never been shown. Early textile works, projects from her time in Chile, Mexico, and Morocco, designs for large architectural commissions and her more recent color-intensive wall objects, sculptures, and installations will also be on display, complemented by sketches and materials from the artist’s archive.