Alice Aycock

Alice Aycock has been a pioneering figure since the 1970s in the development of postminimalism—an approach to art that focuses as much on the artist’s creative process and the content and context of an artwork as on the formal qualities of the art object. Her large-scale installations have dealt with the interaction of site, structure, materials, and both the physical and psychological responses of the viewer. While the wood and earth forms of her early career draw on childhood memories and allude to ancient history and architecture, the metal sculptures of her recent work evoke associations with industry and the power, as well as poetry, of the machine.

Aycock was educated at Douglas College of Rutgers University in New Jersey and Hunter College in New York. She had her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1977. She has earned numerous awards, including four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to being an internationally recognized artist, Aycock is also an educator. She has taught at various colleges and universities, including Yale University and the School of Visual Arts in New York.