Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture) (Chicago History of Science and Medicine)

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architects she befriended during that trip gave her names of people in Paris, where she went afterward on a Fribourg scholarship and lived as an artist among South American expatriates. During a brief interlude, she settled in Mexico, where she gave birth to her daughter Itaka. This nomadic existence—and the encounters it provided—were as formative as her sedentary years at Yale, where, in 1959, she had earned a master of fine arts under the supervision of Josef Albers, the renowned Bauhaus painter and color theorist. IB I had come from an art school which was totally crazy so it was good for me to see another world. I was given loads of freedom there, I immediately became a designer – not a junior designer – I was a designer.

INT You’re an avid collector of books and have a library upstairs, how long have you been collecting? IB Well I got a state prize in 2014 and I had to spend the money in my field somehow. At first, I thought “let’s make a book”, but then I thought, “no, that’s what I do all day every day, let’s continue what I am already doing,” which was collecting books from the 1500s and 1600s and the 1960s. Since 1964, she has lived and worked in Paris, France. [3] Prior to that, she lived and worked in Guerrero, Mexico from 1959 to 1963.

She photographed extensively with her Rolleiflex. Her subjects included the architecture of Felix Candela and artists active in Mexico. Alison Jacques to expand with new gallery space on Cork Street, Mayfair". Alison Jacques . Retrieved April 17, 2023. While at Yale School of Art in Connecticut (1954-1959), she studied with Josef Albers, Rico Lebrun, Bernard Chaet, George Kubler, George Heard Hamilton, and Vincent Scully, Jose de Riviera, Herbert Mather, Norman Ives, Gabor Peterdi. Her thesis, on "Pre-Incaic Textiles.", was supervised by Junius Bird, archaeologist, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the artist Anni Albers. IB Yeah, it’s what I like about making books, it’s a democratic medium. Whatever I make, even if the print run is only 1,000 like Chanel: Livre D’Artistes, what you produce is a democratic object. Sometimes they’re 100 euros, sometimes they’re 10 euros or 20 euros, but the bigger the print run, the better. It’s about sharing this edited information bound and printed to as many people as possible so that everybody can enjoy it.

INT Famously, you work on projects for years, so what’s next for you? Is there anything on the horizon? Camhi, Leslie (March 31, 2011). "A Career Woven From Life". The New York Times . Retrieved April 2, 2019.INT You couldn’t make it up – that you ended up with the son of the person who inspired your career! Where did you finally meet? Designer Irma Boom won the Gold Medal for the"Most Beautiful Book in the World" Prize givenat the Leipzig Book Fair It was crazy. That’s basically how I got my job doing what I do today. In the beginning, people only knew me because of those books. Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Belgrade; Museum of Art, Skopje, Macedonia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dubrovnic, Yugoslavia; Biblioteca Americana, Bucharest, Romania IB In the beginning, I thought people were right and it was a mistake, but now it’s considered my first best-designed book. A colleague of mine at the time described it as a giant, gigantic mistake. But a brilliant mistake.