Merlin James and Victoria Morton in BOMB Magazine's 42nd Anniversary Benefit Auction

Works by Merlin James and Victoria Morton are included in BOMB Magazine’s 42nd Anniversary Benefit Auction in collaboration with Artsy. Bidding is now live and will close on Tuesday, April 9 at 12:00 EST.

To view the auction on Artsy, click here.

BOMB Magazine was launched in 1981 to publish conversations that reflected the way artists spoke about their work among themselves. As a result, BOMB reinvented the interview as a dialogue between artists about the creative process. Today, BOMB is a multi-platform publishing house that produces and disseminates artist-generated content through BOMB Magazine, BOMB Daily, FUSE: A BOMB Podcast, and the Oral History Project, a series chronicling the lives and work of African Diasporic visual artists from New York, Chicago, and New Orleans. All of BOMB’s content—42 years of the artist’s voice— is available free on www.bombmagazine.org to 950,000+ worldwide readers.

Sheila Hicks in 'Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art' and 'The Threads of Architecture' Conversation at The Met

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Sheila Hicks in 'Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art' and 'The Threads of Architecture' Conversation at The Met

Sheila Hicks is featured in the exhibition Weaving as Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 5 through June 16, 2024. In conjunction with the exhibition, a conversation between Hicks and architect Frida Escobedo, joined by Met curators Joanne Pillsbury and Iria Candela, will be held Friday, March 8, at 6 PM.

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william cordova Awarded 2024 Creative Capital Grant in Visual Arts

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Sikkema Jenkins & Co. congratulates william cordova for receiving a 2024 Creative Capital Award in Visual Arts.

Creative Capital awarded artist grants totaling $2.5 million towards the creation of 50 new works by 54 artists across the US and Puerto Rico on the basis of their innovative approaches to painting, sculpture, public art, video, architecture, design, film, and socially engaged forms. To learn more about 2024 Creative Capital Artist Grants in Visual Arts and Film, click here.

cordova’s practice explores the visuality of transition and displacement through multi-integrated mediums and materials. His site-specific installation Off the Wall is currently on view at Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University through August 23. corodva’s forthcoming solo exhibition can’t stop, won’t stop (geometria sagrada) will open at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. on Friday, February 9.

In Loving Memory of Brent Sikkema (1948 – 2024)

Brent Sikkema (1948-2024)

 
 

It is with great sadness that the gallery announces the passing of our beloved founder, Brent Sikkema.

Brent Sikkema was born in 1948 and raised in Morrison, Illinois. An alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute, Brent began his gallery work in 1971 as Director of Exhibitions at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. He acted as the Director of Vision Gallery in Boston from 1976 until 1980 and owner from 1980 to 1989. After moving to New York in 1991, Brent opened a contemporary art gallery in Soho named Wooster Gardens. The gallery moved to the Chelsea arts district in early 1999 and a few years later the name was changed to Sikkema Jenkins & Co. The gallery grieves this tremendous loss and will continue on in his spirit.

Meg Malloy, Partner
Michael Jenkins, Partner
& the entire staff of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Sheila Hicks: "Nowhere to go" at NGV Triennial

Installation view of Sheila Hicks’ work Nowhere to go on display as part of NGV Triennial from 3 December 2023 – 7 April 2024 at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Sean Fennessy.

Sheila Hicks' monumental soft sculpture installation Nowhere to go (2022) is featured in the 2023 NGV Triennial. Piled high, the gradated blue boulders of pigmented fiber demonstrate Hicks’s capacity to change the experience of a space through a large-scale, site-specific work. Sitting in opposition to the hard surfaces of the surrounding environment, Nowhere to go demonstrates Hicks’s attention to architecture, abstraction, color theory, and painterly gesture.

Read “Painting space,” an essay on Hicks’ work by Donna McColm, Assistant Director of Curatorial and Audience Engagement at National Gallery of Victoria.

Sheila Hicks’ Nowhere to go is on view at the NGV Triennial through April 7, 2024. To learn more about the Triennial, click here.