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About
Alice Aycock was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1946. In the 1970’s she was one of the youngest members of the circle of New York artists around Gordon Matta-Clark and the 112 Greene Street Gallery. Aycock first gained international recognition with her contribution to Documenta 6 (1977), The Beginnings of a Complex… . In her often large-scale sculptures and installations Aycock channels various themes; from cybernetics, phenomenology, physics, post-structuralism, information-overload, scientific discoveries, and computer programming to create works that sit on the cross-section between architecture and sculpture, eliciting both intellectual and emotional responses from their viewers.
Alice Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick and at Hunter College in New York City. She has received numerous awards, including the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center in Hamilton (2017), the International Association of Art Critics Award (2014), the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2013) and the Americans for the Arts Public Art Award (2008). Her work has been presented in exhibitions around the world, including solo shows at MoMA, MCA Chicago, Serpentine Gallery, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm, as well as comprehensive European museum retrospectives in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 1990, a second retrospective with the title Complex Visions was organized by the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville. Major group exhibitions include the 1979 and 1981 Whitney Biennials in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Documenta (1977; 1987), the Venice Biennale (1978; 1980; 1982), LACMA and Haus der Kunst (2012), as well as the seminal exhibition Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art at the Brooklyn Museum (2012). Alice Aycock’s works can be found in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, LACMA, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and many others. Numerous early and recent outdoor installations are permanently located in public and private collections in the US, Europe and Asia. Some of these pieces include: Liftoff, Des Moines International Airport, Des Moines, Iowa, East River Roundabout, New York, the New San Francisco Public Library, the Sacramento Convention Center, Star Sifter at Terminal One of JFK International Airport, Ghost Ballet for East Bank Machineworks in Nashville, What Every Traveler Needs To Know at the Philadelphia International Airport, and the recently completed The Game of Flyers Part Two at Washington Dulles International Airport. Permanent reconstructions of A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels from 1975 and Low Building with Dirt Roof (for Mary) from 1973 are installed at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent and the Storm King Art Center, respectively. Alice Aycock lives and works in New York City.
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Selected Works
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VideoExhibitions in the gallery
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TWISTER GRANDE (TALL)
ALICE AYCOCK 27 April TO 29 June 2019For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2019, Galerie Thomas Schulte will present a new work by the...View Exhibition -
EARLY WORKS
ALICE AYCOCK 29 September TO 17 November 2018For Berlin Art Week 2018, Galerie Thomas Schulte opens a comprehensive exhibition showing early works...View Exhibition
Artist News-
Alice Aycock, Hamish Fulton / MAMCO Geneva, Switzerland
Group exhibition 4 October 2022Art created with and within the land (or the landscape) is far from a stable or even clearly delineated aesthetic category: Robert Smithson, for instance,...Read more -
ALICE AYCOCK / The Church in Sag Harbor, New York
Talk 2 September 2021Passers-by were stunned when Alice Aycock's great work 'Twister Grande (Tall)', 2019, was installed at The Church in Sag Harbor earlier this summer. The artist...Read more -
Alice Aycock / The Menil Collection, Houston TX, USA
Group exhibition 21 May 2021Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s presents drawings that challenge the conventional idea of the monument as a permanent, grand, or commemorative form....Read more