Chelsea Studio New York City 1976
Chelsea Studio New York City 1976
Sica's "Charles Brand" Press
Chelsea Studio New York City 1976
As a young printmaker in the 1950s, Sica established her mark in abstraction, creating original prints in the way of master printmakers. While Sica had her own original style, she was often referred to as a constructivist artist, following Picasso and Braque’s not in style but in approach and application.
Her work was predominantly collagraph, silkscreens, and etchings. She was a forerunner as a women artist, not unlike Lee Krasner and other women artists that were part of the Abstract Expressionist movement dominated by men. And, she was an innovator with her Charles Brand press, using techniques that became her signature style.
Sica is a prolific and acclaimed artist. Her work is celebrated both nationally and internationally. Her paintings, prints, constructions, sculptures, and ceramics are in museums and private collections worldwide.
She has lived and worked in England, Italy, Greece, Guatemala, Korea, Morroco, Spain, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. For over 45 years, she maintained her primary studio in Chelsea, New York City. Drawn to the beauty of Montauk, Sica spent most summers working at her South Embassy Street studio, which is now an Italian Bakery. The Montauk Series is one of the reflections of that time.
At 90, Sica has returned to her beloved Montauk to live quietly by the sea.
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I see my work as expressing both male and female elements within a lively tension. Pulling from the opposite polls; negative, positive, space and form, inner and outer. Often in my recent works, I discern an inner form that contradicts the outer. This suggests to me a coming together of new elements that are involved in combustion.
In the past, I have been involved in the interplay of figures in their surrounding space and particularly avoided primadonnas or center stage soliloquies—figures in the environment, relating to each other or their atmosphere, the round of daily involvement. Now I see pregnant forms with inner meaning that seem to imply an urgency of delivery. I now see the outer relationship between the self and the outer relationship between the inner and the outer self—a genie in a bottle.
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— Sica
First Soho Group Show before 10 Downtown
473 West Broadway NYC
Collections and Exhibits
International Collections
Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France / Museum of Modern Art, Madiera, Portugal / Yugoslavian Solidarity Museum, Montenegro / Chongju Museum, Korea / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / American Consulate, Marseilles, France / The Fairlawn, Calcutta, India / Centro Washington Irving, Madrid / Palacio de al Alhondiga, Zamora, Spain / Castillo Medieval Oropesa, Spain / Gradska Gallerija, Montenegro/
International Exhibitions
Third British Biennial 1972
Schiedam Museum, Rotterdam 1973
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1974
International Exhibit of Graphic Arts, Freshen Germany, 1976
Tokyo Central Museum, 1978
Bradford Biennial, England 1979
American Consulate, Trieste, Italy
Gallery Meduza, Koper, Yugoslavia
US Exhibitions
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York / Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, NYC / / Bergen Museum, Paramus, New Jersey / Southern Alleghany Museum, Loretto, PA / International World Bank, Washington, DC / New Jersey State Museum / New York University / Brooklyn Museum / Miami Museum of Modern Art / Citibank / Toledo Museum, Toledo, Ohio / Cornell University / Alternative Center for International Arts, NYC / Indianapolis Museum / Deloitte Touche, NYC / Los Angeles Museum / MasterCard of America / America Online / Janus Fund / New Jersey Theater for the Performing Arts / Smith-Barney / The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace / The Collection of Don and Maria Johnson
One Woman Shows
Vietnamese-American Association , Vietnam 1963
Hellenic- American Association, Athens Greece, 1964
Miami Museum of Modern Art, 1970
Gallery Moos, Montreal, Canada, 1971
Kannai Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, 1971
Art and Investigation, Paris France, 1972
Les Amis de Arts, Aix en Provence, France, 1972
American Consulate Marseilles, France, 1972
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1973
Galleria Santiago, San Juan, PR, 1973
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, 1972, 73, 78
Gallery Meduza, Koper, Yugoslavia, 1974
American Consulate, Trieste, Italy, 1974
Klub Kulturnikum, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1974
Editions Limited Galleries, Indianapolis & San Francisco, 1979
Langman Gallery, Jenkinstown, PA 1981-83
Devorsan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1982
Reiss Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1983