Thomas C. Hicks Jr "Bent" Sculpture

Born in Amarillo, TX in 1927, Tommy graduated from West Texas State University in 1952, and had private studies under Dord Fitz. When he was 45 years old, he and his family moved to northern New Mexico where he started Shidoni Foundry along the Rio Tesuque on a former apple orchard. This 14,000 square-foot facility, over the next 35 years, would grow into two Shidoni Galleries, two Sculpture Gardens, and one of the largest art foundries in the United States. Tommy has had a considerable amount of work shown across the country, and is part of many private and corporate art collections including the Amarillo Museum of Fine Arts in Amarillo, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, California; New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado; and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Texas. SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS Burr Gallery – New York, New York Sangre de Cristo Art Center – Pueblo, Colorado Lincoln Center for the Arts – Ft. Collins, Colorado Santa Fe Festival of the Arts – Santa Fe, New Mexico Third Annual Sculpture in the Park, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts – Boulder, CO SELECTED MUSEUM AND ONE-MAN SHOWS Amarillo College – Amarillo, Texas Abilene Museum of Fine Arts – Abilene, Texas Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University – Wichita, Kansas Oklahoma City Museum of Fine Arts – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art – San Francisco, California Roswell Museum – Roswell, New Mexico New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts – Santa Fe, New Mexico Denver Art Museum – Denver, Colorado Contemporary Art Museum – Houston, Texas Beaumont Museum – Beaumont, Texas Loveland Museum – Loveland, Colorado Colorado Springs Fine Art Museum – Colorado Springs, Colorado