LEIGH ANN WILLIAMS HICKEY
Leigh Ann Williams Hickey is a working artist and educator who resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and two dogs. She received a BFA in printmaking from Texas Christian University in 1993, and an MFA in painting from Texas Woman’s University in 2010. She was an art educator from 1998 to 2019. Her teaching accomplishments include being a Fulbright Hays Scholarship winner and she was Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Gallery Curator at The Art Institute of Fort Worth. She is currently a full-time docent at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Leigh Ann has been a part of numerous juried and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She enjoys traveling and experiencing other cultures around the world.
Artist Statement
My work is a constant ebb and flow of what is happening within my life. I am a very raw and emotional person and my creative expression comes in many forms and mediums. Empty Nest Syndrome is a series that uses nests as a metaphor for the family unit. Some nests are fruitful and some are empty and barren. My quest for a family was never fulfilled, even after several rounds of IVF. I felt less than whole because I never had children. Society deems women as maternal, what does that make me? These paintings and sculptures are created with found objects, treasures that I have been collecting or have been gifted over the years. The children are cocooned and shrouded in precious gold. The clocks in the series were bequeathed to me from my estranged biological Father, they were built by his father. I am using the clock body to create a space for the nest, guarding and encapsulating it. The cicada is the keeper of time. The 17 years they stay in the ground is symbolic of this journey. The gem stones are all lab grown and represent the embryo grown through the process of IVF. It has been a long road to get myself prepared to explore this work, which is ongoing. I seek to know whom I am and what is my purpose, often feeling not enough. These paintings and sculptures express my feelings of being ostracized by my own personal choices.
LEIGH ANN WILLIAMS HICKEY
Leigh Ann Williams Hickey is a working artist and educator who resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and two dogs. She received a BFA in printmaking from Texas Christian University in 1993, and an MFA in painting from Texas Woman’s University in 2010. She was an art educator from 1998 to 2019. Her teaching accomplishments include being a Fulbright Hays Scholarship winner and she was Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Gallery Curator at The Art Institute of Fort Worth. She is currently a full-time docent at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Leigh Ann has been a part of numerous juried and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She enjoys traveling and experiencing other cultures around the world.
Artist Statement
My work is a constant ebb and flow of what is happening within my life. I am a very raw and emotional person and my creative expression comes in many forms and mediums. Empty Nest Syndrome is a series that uses nests as a metaphor for the family unit. Some nests are fruitful and some are empty and barren. My quest for a family was never fulfilled, even after several rounds of IVF. I felt less than whole because I never had children. Society deems women as maternal, what does that make me? These paintings and sculptures are created with found objects, treasures that I have been collecting or have been gifted over the years. The children are cocooned and shrouded in precious gold. The clocks in the series were bequeathed to me from my estranged biological Father, they were built by his father. I am using the clock body to create a space for the nest, guarding and encapsulating it. The cicada is the keeper of time. The 17 years they stay in the ground is symbolic of this journey. The gem stones are all lab grown and represent the embryo grown through the process of IVF. It has been a long road to get myself prepared to explore this work, which is ongoing. I seek to know whom I am and what is my purpose, often feeling not enough. These paintings and sculptures express my feelings of being ostracized by my own personal choices.
LEIGH ANN WILLIAMS HICKEY
Leigh Ann Williams Hickey is a working artist and educator who resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and two dogs. She received a BFA in printmaking from Texas Christian University in 1993, and an MFA in painting from Texas Woman’s University in 2010. She was an art educator from 1998 to 2019. Her teaching accomplishments include being a Fulbright Hays Scholarship winner and she was Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Gallery Curator at The Art Institute of Fort Worth. She is currently a full-time docent at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Leigh Ann has been a part of numerous juried and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She enjoys traveling and experiencing other cultures around the world.
Artist Statement
My work is a constant ebb and flow of what is happening within my life. I am a very raw and emotional person and my creative expression comes in many forms and mediums. Empty Nest Syndrome is a series that uses nests as a metaphor for the family unit. Some nests are fruitful and some are empty and barren. My quest for a family was never fulfilled, even after several rounds of IVF. I felt less than whole because I never had children. Society deems women as maternal, what does that make me? These paintings and sculptures are created with found objects, treasures that I have been collecting or have been gifted over the years. The children are cocooned and shrouded in precious gold. The clocks in the series were bequeathed to me from my estranged biological Father, they were built by his father. I am using the clock body to create a space for the nest, guarding and encapsulating it. The cicada is the keeper of time. The 17 years they stay in the ground is symbolic of this journey. The gem stones are all lab grown and represent the embryo grown through the process of IVF. It has been a long road to get myself prepared to explore this work, which is ongoing. I seek to know whom I am and what is my purpose, often feeling not enough. These paintings and sculptures express my feelings of being ostracized by my own personal choices.