WHENEVER WEDNESDAY CONVERSATION:
ON GEOMETRY, THROUGH THE WORK OF ANNE TYNG
Wednesday, March 2 @ 6:30pm
This evening's conversation is prompted by a new work by the visionary architect and theorist
Anne Tyng. In keeping with the spirit of this new project, our panelists from various disciplines
take a fresh look at her work. Led by consulting curator Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Assistant Professor,
Tyler_Architecture, Temple University, who worked closely with Tyng to realize this installation.
Panelists include: architect and engineer Robert Marino; architect and theorist Alicia Imperiale,
Assistant Professor of Architectural History/Theory and Design at Tyler School of Art, Temple
University; architect and theorist Helene Furjan, Assistant Professor of Architecture, University
of Pennsylvania; architecture historian Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Architecture Critic,
The New
Republic, and fashion designers threeASFOUR.
WHENEVER WEDNESDAY LECTURE:
ON SHARY BOYLE & EMILY DUKE: THE ILLUMINATIONS PROJECT
Wednesday, March 16 @ 6:30pm
Join curator Virginia Solomon as she illuminates the feminist politics of Boyle and Duke's project.
FIELD TRIP:
ARCHITECTURE BY ANNE TYNG IN AND AROUND PHILADELPHIA
Saturday, March 19 @ 11am
Get on the bus for a day of site visits including Erdman Hall at Bryn Mawr College,
the Wharton Esherick Studio in Paoli, among others. This event is at capacity. To be
placed on our waiting list please send an email to Jenna Weiss at
fellow@pobox.upenn.edu. $20 (includes a box lunch).
SHEILA HICKS: 50 YEARS
Thursday, March 24
6-8pm · Opening Reception · free and open to the public
5pm · Exhibition walkthrough with artist Sheila Hicks and curator Jenelle Porter. (for members only)
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years
is the first major retrospective to honor this extraordinary
American artist, (b. 1934 Hastings, Nebraska; lives Paris) From her earliest work of the late
1950s to the present, she has expanded definitions of painting, sculpture, design, drawing,
and most critically, woven form. Throughout, her art demonstrates her keen sense of line and
color, abstraction and geometry. Featuring more than 90 of her most important works, this
exhibition offers insight into Hicks's work in fibers and reveals the continuities between
small weavings, design commissions, free-standing sculptures, and architecturally scaled
sculptures. Hicks's exceptional body of work blurs boundaries between art, design, and craft
just as deftly as it crisscrosses cultures.
MIRANDA // THE ICA BLOG
Read
Miranda on Sheila Hicks's prairie origins, the early stages of the Hicks exhibition, and why
Miranda dubs the world-famous fiber artist the anti-Penelope: "Born in Hastings, Nebraska in 1934,
but since 1963 a resident of Paris..."
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CONVERSATION:
SHEILA HICKS AT THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
Friday, March 25 @ 6:30pm
Sheila Hicks, whose remarkable career will be surveyed in the retrospective exhibition
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years at ICA (opens March 24), speaks about her painterly and sculptural work in fiber during this evening's PMA special lecture series.
Free tickets required after Museum admission.
Location: The Philadelphia Museum of Art (26th Street & the Benjamin Franklin Parkway-Van Pelt Auditorium).
To register, call (215)-235-SHOW (7469).
Photo by E. A. Martignoni
PENNDESIGN FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES @ ICA:
MICHELLE GRABNER
Thursday, March 31 @ 6pm
Hear renowned artists speak about their work as this popular series of public lectures continues.
This evening's guest lecturer is
painter
Michelle Grabner whose abstract work consists of repetitious vocabulary and simple mathematical ordering.
Ms. Grabner is represented by Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago and Rocket in London, and lives and
works in Oak Park, Illinois.
The most recent book on her work
is published by Poor Farm Press (2010) entitled
Can I come Over to Your House: The First Ten Years of the
Suburban, includes an essay by Michael Newman.
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