WOVEN COLOR
by Donald Kuspit
Sheila Hicks is one of the great woman fiber artists, working in the tradition established by
Sonia Delaunay and
Anni Albers, but boldly extending it into new esthetic territory. Their work is inseparable from the history of so-called “pure art,” and in fact was often much more adventurous, not to say innovative, than the work of their husbands, both by reason of its use of found material -- textile -- and by reason of its formal complexity.
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