Sica

Born in 1932 in New York City, SICA began her artistic career in 1950 while studying at The Art Students League of New York, and later at the Pratt Graphics Workshop, New York. She also traveled extensively, eventually settling in Saigon, Vietnam, as Duy Than's apprentice, then in Athens, Greece, with Emanuel Pilidikis. She bolstered her reputation simultaneously by participating in several international art invitationals and symposiums. Aside from Vietnam and Greece, SICA has lived in England, Spain and Yugoslavia, and her œuvre reflects an enlightened perspective of the world, its people and its cultures.

SICA's work is in the collections of Le Musée Moderne de la Ville de Paris, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Los Angeles Museum, The Brooklyn Museum,The Miami Museum of Fine Arts and New York University in addition to many other fine arts institutions and private collections.

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 shape. 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 have avoided prima-donnas or center stage soliloquies. Figures in environment, relating to each other or to their atmosphere, the round of daily involvement. Now I see pregnant forms with inner meaning that seem to imply an urgency of delivery. I see now that there is both the outer relationship between the self and the other and the relationship between the inner and the outer self.

A genie in a bottle.

Born in New York City 1932

Studied at Art Students League, NYC, 1949-50

Studied print making in Vietnam with Duy Than 1963

Studied print making in Athens, Greece with Emanuel Pilidikis

Worked at Pratt Graphics Workshop 1967-69

Worked at Blackburn studio with Krishna Redyy, 1969-71

Set up print making studio in Istria, Yugoslavia, 1973-4

Geographical safari in Kenya and Tanzania, 1976

Visit to Celtic sites is Ireland, 1979

Studied Indian weaving in Antigua, Guatemala, 1979

Attended International Artists Invitational, Asila, Morocco, 1980

Cast bronze sculpture-Pietra Santa, Italy, 1981-84

Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

International World Bank, Washington, DC

Toledo Museum, Ohio

New Jersey State Museum

New York University

Brooklyn Museum

Bradford University, England

Miami Museum of Modern Art

City Bank

Cornell University

Alternative Center for International Arts, NYC

Philip Morris Corporation

Indianapolis Museum

Los Angeles Museum

Yugoslavian Solidarity Museum, Montenegro, Yugoslavia

British Airways

Carnegie Institute for World Peace

Third British Biennial, 1972

Sheidarn Museum. Rotterdam 1973

Davidson Print Competition, North Carolina 1973

First Miami Graphics Biennial, 1973

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1974

Newberger Museum, Purchase, NY, 1976

International Exhibit of Graphic Arts, Frechen, Germany, 1976

Tokyo Central Museum, 1978

Bratford Biennial, England 1979

Korea, 1998

Da Da’s Ma Ma’s masked dance with original music By Patrick Collins, Heidelberg, Germany, 1981

Green is The Night, collages with original music By Wendy Blackstone, New York, 1982

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 des Arts, Aix en Provence, France, 1972
American Consulate Marseilles, France, 1972
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1973
Galleria Santiago, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1973
Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer Gallery, 1972,73,78
Gallery Meduza, Koper, Yugoslavia, 1974
American Consulate, Trieste, Italy 1974
Klub Kulturnikum, Ljublijana, Yogoslavia, 1974
Editions Limited Galleries, Indianapolis and San Francisco, 1979
Yugoslav Press and Cultural Center, 1979
Langsman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA, 1981-83
Devorsan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1982
Port Washington Public Library, Long Island NY, 1982
Reiss Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1983
Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD, 1984
Reiss Gallery, Denver, CO, 1991, 1993
Mostar, Bosnia, 1998
The 21^st Century Gallery, Denver, CO, 1999

Sica’s editions are multiple works which are first reliefed than inked-cut-collaged, inked a second time and finally given a hand rubbed patina. All of these many processes are done by hand in the artist studio and each process is done by the artist herself with the help of an assistant (her son).

She makes use of many types of papers, among them metal bonded paper, coated enamel finished papers and Japan papers.

Therefore she creates only very small editions numbering from 1 to 10 with 2 proofs- 1 to 30, with 3 proofs or 1 to 50 with 5 proofs. Each work has an identifying number, including the proofs