Sheila Hicks: a little bit of a lot of things

Ana Mendieta

Forthcoming: Tate Modern, London

Lygia Clark: Retrospective

Forthcoming: Kunsthaus Zürich

Robert Mapplethorpe

‘Le forme del classico’, Le Stanze della Fotografia, Venice

Maria Bartuszová: a tiny void full of a tiny infinite universe

South Bohemian Gallery, Czech Republic

Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Sheila Hicks

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Donald Locke: Resistant Forms

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects

Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio

Sophie Barber: Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry

Hastings Contemporary

Veronica Ryan

at Goodwood Art Foundation, Chichester

Nicola L. – I Am The Last Woman Object

Museion, Bolzano, Italy

Lenore Tawney: Holding us in wonder

The Gund, Kenyon College, Ohio

Sophie Barber

Pièce Unique, Massimo de Carlo, Paris

Sheila Hicks’s forthcoming solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen includes works that span a period of more than fifty years. It looks back on an extensive, fascinating work and also features recent works by Hicks, whose creative power remains undiminished to this day.

Large-scale works alternate with small weavings, which the artist continually works on from time to time, like drawings. Hicks has repeatedly invented artistic manipulations in order to articulate new forms out of textile materials, such as weaving interspersed with found objects from nature, scepters wrapped with colored wool, and accumulations of threads tied into ropes as thick as an arm. […]