Alice Aycock

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Alice Aycock (born November 20, 1946 in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania ) is an American sculptor and installation artist .

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Another Twister (João) in front of the Sprengel Museum Hannover

Alice Aycock studied at Rutgers University's Douglass College and graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts . She then studied in New York at Hunter College with Robert Morris, among others, and obtained a Master of Arts there in 1971 .

She began her artistic work in the 1970s, mainly with sculptures made of wood and stone, and since the 1980s she has also been using steel. Her work has been exhibited in US museums such as the Museum of Modern Art , the San Francisco Art Institute , the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art . She has also exhibited in Japan and Israel, as well as in European countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France and Italy. Her works are in the Kunsthaus Bregenz and in the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation in the Schaulager Basel. In 1983 the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart curated an exhibition of her works in several European countries.

Her more recent projects, which completed installations in 2007, include Ghost Ballet for the Eastbank Machineworks in Nashville , Tennessee, The Uncertainty of Ground State Fluctuations in Clayton , Missouri, and Strange Attractor for Kansas City at Kansas City International Airport . Her sculpture Another Twister (João) was installed in front of the Sprengel Museum Hannover in 2015 .

Alice Aycock teaches at the School of Visual Arts . She was elected a member of the National Academy New York in 2013.

Alice Aycock was married to the installation artist Dennis Oppenheim from 1982 until his death in 2011. She lives and works in New York.

About their works

The American sculptor wants to convey “feelings of weightlessness” with her walk-in fantasy architecture and machine-like metal sculptures. The sculptures, often erected in the wild, are symbols of personal experiences for her.

- art - Das Kunstmagazin , June 1986

Exhibitions

literature

  • Alice Aycock. History of a Beautyful May Rose Garden in the Month of January, project for the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia 1979
  • Alice Aycock. Retrospective of the projects and ideas 1972–1983. Installation and drawings, published by Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Cantz, Stuttgart 1983
  • Alice Aycock. Munich installation. Exhibition September 24 to October 31, 1987 in the Kunstforum, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich 1987, ISBN 3-88645-081-3
  • Brooke Kamin Rapaport: Alice Aycock - public artist. In: Sculpture. Volume 22, 10, 2003, ISSN  0889-728X , pp. 32-37
  • Robert Carleton Hobbs: Alice Aycock. Sculpture and projects. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2005, ISBN 0-262-08339-6

Web links

Commons : Alice Aycock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  2. ^ Whitney Museum of American Art
  3. ^ List of artists ( memento of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation
  4. ↑ Roller coaster parts for the world parable ( memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Kunstforum international , Volume 69, 1984
  5. ↑ Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machine Works - Nashville, TN Waymark
  6. ^ The Uncertainty of Ground State Fluctuations - Clayton, Missouri Waymark
  7. ↑ Strange Attractor for Kansas City installed at KCI ( Memento from May 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ A new landmark for Hanover ... ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Sprengel Museum Hanover, accessed on September 22, 2015.
  9. ^ National Academicians. Living Academicians at nationalacademy.org, accessed March 15, 2015
  10. ↑ Alice Aycock. In: art - the art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg June 1986, p. 90.
  11. ^ Biennale de Paris ( Memento from December 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers, SculptureCenter, Long Island 2008
  13. ↑ Cycling Apparati, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles 2008
  14. ^ Sites , Whitney Museum , New York 2009
  15. ↑ Learn to read Art: A History of Printed Matter (1976–2009), Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe 2009
  16. ↑ Alice Aycock on the website of the Sprengel Museum Hannover
personal data
SURNAME Aycock, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptress
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Pennsylvania