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Sheila Hicks at the Whitney Biennial 2014

March 05, 2014

The final Biennial in New York's iconic Marcel Breuer's building is one of the grandest, before the Whitney moves to its new downtown location.

The final Biennial in New York’s iconic Marcel Breuer’s building is one of the grandest, before the Whitney Museum of American Art moves to its new downtown location. Three external curators have edited the show to involve 103 participants from 7 March – 25 May 2014.

Curator Michelle Grabner, a painter as well as an academic, has chosen to explore three themes: “art that emphasises critique and self-reflection” (ie, the work of Gary Indiana); women artists who examine what it means to be a “woman artist” (Louise Fishman, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung); and “materiality and craft” (Sheila Hicks, whose fibre sculptures “push back” at the old notion of art versus craft).

Hicks’ art is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo & New York and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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