Sammie Nicely | Also Known As: Samuel Louis Nicely

Giselle Hicks is known for dimensional tile works, sculptural installations and hand built vessels. Her making preferences range from slip cast, pinched and coiled, and includes mixed media where appropriate. Color palettes are often muted.

Her studio output is motivated by a variety of sources. Hand built vessels are formal studies in shape, volume color and composition. Tile works echo the winter landscape and are inspired by textiles that are used on an intimate level in daily life such as pillows, quilts, and tablecloths. Through her tile works, Hicks? ultimate concern is conveying a sense of faded memory through the passage of time.

Installations investigate domestic spaces that focus on ritual and routine, especially the bedroom and dining room. Through these habitable spaces, Hicks examines a variety of themes revolving around human relationships. How are these rooms designed? How do these rooms determine the proximity of humans? How do these spaces affect our actions and interactions? These are all questions that the works ask respectively. Hicks? overall approach to installation deals with the story of use: in her words ? an abstraction of the expansive and complex life experiences that take place across surfaces of these sights within the home.