Sex with Sheila Hicks
Donald Moffett, Art in America
November 2012
“I recall a night of hot sex with a man in a Parisian hotel. The sconces above the bed were left broken”. Paris, a work by Sheila Hicks, hangs on a wall to the right of the fireplace, over my desk. The piece (10 by 5 inches, 1987) is small and sheer. See-through. It appears to be made from a single thread of natural linen (although I think it is made from two). Its two loose ends suggest that it might unravel at the slightest tug. […]