Thoughts

The celebration continues on! We are so excited to flag that Suzanne and her induction into Interior Design’s Hall of Fame 2023 has been featured in the publication’s January 2024 issue. You can view the 9-page spread online HERE.

What better way to start the year than with a new collection of 5 gorgeous textiles. Inviting us to get on the same wavelength and put nature first, the Good Vibrations collection for @luumtextiles by @suzannetick launches today. Static, frequency and vibration are emulated in textile form, promoting the powerful forces of energy that connect us worldwide…. evoking warmth, adaptability and joy in the interior. 

Order samples and yardage anytime at luumtextiles.com.

Preparations for Robert Whitman’s American Moon at the Reuben Gallery (November 29 – December 4, 1960) © J. Paul Getty Trust.  Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.M.7)

Tick Studio is one of the sites of The Happenings; a short-lived New York City performance art movement spanning 1958-1963. Focused on hybrid, ephemeral art form making such as installation and performance, theatrical and scrappy Happenings eschewed plot and character development in favor of explorations into the imaginative potential of movement, sound, material, and time.

Artist Robert Whitman, known for his collaborative and deeply experimental work across performance and installation, was a major artist figure in the Happenings in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, and passed Friday, Jan 19 at 88. Read on about his life and work here, here and watch here.

Known as the Rueben Gallery at the time, 44 East 3rd Street held space for exploration in a very specific corner of performance art in downtown Manhattan. Complete with all the requisite characters and chaos, low-budget creative gatherings were staged here, and other places like the Judson Church and the Delancey Street Museum, with figures like Robert Whitman, Red Grooms, Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Carolee Schneeman, Lucas Samaras, Trisha Brown, Tom Wesselman, Yvonne Rainer, and Robert Rauschenberg. 

In 2012, Milly Glimcher, co-founder of Pace Gallery, did a splendid job curating an exhibition at Pace called: “Happenings: New York, 1958-1963,” allowing visitors to wander through sections dedicated to Happenings of all kinds. Grooms’s “A Play Called Fire,” Dine’s “Car Crash,” Kaprow’s “18 Happenings,” Oldenburg’s “Snapshots from the City,” Schneeman’s “Quarry Transposed,” and others. Click here and here for more information on the show. 

We are proud to be among a rich tradition of creativity and exploration here at the studio which began with artistic endeavors of The Happenings and carries on into the present day..

We are so excited to share that the Super Natural collection and Biotope, designed by Suzanne Tick for Luum Textiles, have been featured in the Best of 2023 issue of Architect’s Newspaper! See more here.

We are so proud to share Suzanne was inducted into the prestigious 39th annual Interior Design Hall of Fame Wed, Dec 6th at the Glasshouse in New York City. Tick Studio clients Skyline Design and Teknion were Platinum sponsors and Luum Textiles was the tablecloth sponsor. Gorgeous!

Interior Design Editor In Chief Cindy Allen introduced textile designer and weaver Suzanne Tick, calling her a “true art master among masters.” In Tick’s Hall of Fame inductee film (viewable here), she sits with Allen to discuss what she loves most about design. “I think that we innately, as human beings, have the ability to solve problems and design is that beautiful, mechanical thing that allows us to solve every situation, any situation in the most elegant, beautiful way,” she said. “That’s the thing a designer is about.”

Driven by a commitment to sustainability and wellbeing, Tick’s endeavors revolve around exploring new materials and the reimagination of manufacturing processes. With an award in hand, Tick stressed the importance of designing with the environment in mind: “If you put nature first, nature will organize to put you first so always think about sustainability first.”

Read more below on Suzanne’s ID Hall of Fame profile for the full story….