Presented by Friends of the High Line, High Line Art announces Hop, Skip, Jump, and Fly: Escape from Gravity, a new High Line Commission by American artist Sheila Hicks: a large-scale installation spanning approximately 200 meters at the Western Rail Yards, New York, beginning at 30th Street and 11th Avenue that will open at the end of May.
Sheila Hicks
At age 83, Sheila Hicks presents a new site specific installation at the High Line in New York, with vibrant weavings of coloured fibers, between the 30th St. and 11th Av.
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- 12 May 2017
- New York
For over 50 years, American artist Sheila Hicks (born 1934) has redefined the boundaries of fiber as a medium, creating a distinctive body of work that falls between the fields of fine art, craft, design, and architecture. Having studied at the Yale University School of Art under the tutelage of Josef Albers, a modern master of art education and color theory, Hicks is a sculptor of color just as much as of fiber.
For her High Line Commission, Hicks drew inspiration from the many kinetic elements that dance around the High Line: the ballet of construction vehicles at the Rail Yards; the multitudinous interwoven layers of construction mesh that cover buildings, scaffolding, and streetscapes; unfinished architectural lattices; and lace of hanging crane cables. Her vibrant installation comprised of twisting tubes of various types of colored fiber will crawl along the rails at the Western Rail Yards, surprising and delighting passerby.
from late May 2017 to March 2018
Sheila Hicks. Hop, Skip, Jump, and Fly: Escape from Gravity
High Line Art
Western Rail Yards
30th Street and 11th Avenue, New York