The 84-year-old textile artist Sheila Hicks has shown her rainbow-hued “Questioning Column” everywhere from the 20th Biennale of Sydney, where it cascaded down one of the stately Ionic pillars of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to the 2017 Venice Biennale.
This semester, “Questioning Column” is greeting visitors to Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts, where Hicks’s color-saturated work spills from the Moody’s main oculus outside and alludes to the work within the gallery’s walls: “Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration,” the Moody’s newest exhibit, opening Feb. 16. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)