Alice Aycock
| Alice Aycock | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 20, 1946 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Sculpture |
| Training | Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Hunter College in New York, NY |
| Website | Official website |
Alice Aycock (born November 20, 1946) is an American sculptor.
[edit] Biography
Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1968. She then went to New York City where she studied for her masters at Hunter College, and where she was taught and supervised by Robert Morris; she graduated in 1971. Her early sculptures were site-specific and were largely made from wood and stone; in the 1980s she began to use steel.
She has created installations at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1977), the San Francisco Art Institute (1979), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1983), and outside the United States, including Israel, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, and Japan. In 1983 a retrospective exhibition was organized by the Württembergischer Kunstverein and traveled through Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland.
She is currently a member of the faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Her current projects include the Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks, a public sculpture placed on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, and The Uncertainty of Ground State Fluctuations in Clayton, Missouri. In 2007, she completed Strange Attractor for Kansas City at the Kansas City International Airport.
She has written several books about her work, including:
- Alice Aycock projects and proposals, 1971-1978, Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, 1978.
- Alice Aycock projects, 1979-1981, University of South Florida, 1981.
In September of 2005 the MIT Press published the artist’s first hardcover monograph, entitled Alice Aycock, Sculpture and Projects, authored by Robert Hobbs.
[edit] References
- Hobbs, Robert. Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects. The MIT Press, 2005. 400pp. [ISBN 0-262-08339-6]
- Museum of Modern Art
- Alice Aycock National Gallery of Art
- Kansas City Municipal Art Commission
- Storm King Art Center
- Solar Wind
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