An Afternoon with Artist Meaghan Hyckie

The Storm-Cloud of the Twenty-First Century

Meaghan Hyckie’s studio was one of the first I visited as a young aspiring art writer. I was taken by the textual quality of her pencil crayon drawings, how they looked like weavings—a quality that’s almost impossible to capture digitally. When viewed online, they almost seem as if they’re rendered digitally, opposed to the painstaking attention Meaghan…