Alice Aycock: New Works on Paper

The Drawing Room is pleased to present "Alice Aycock | New Works on Paper", opening July 12, 2013 and featuring selected drawings and prints by the renowned sculptor whose works have long captivated audiences worldwide. Known for her large-scale installations, public art projects and outdoor sculptures, the drawings in this exhibit reveal the spirit of exploration that is the driving force in her creative process.

Alice Aycock came of age in the 1970s, emerging from Douglass College and Hunter College as an artist who was equal parts conceptualist, engineer and phenomenologist at a time when the New York art world was at a junction between the Modernist and Post-Modernist eras. She embraced the concept of art as experience as opposed to art as object, and to this end her artistic practice has yielded works that encompass a palpable, physical synergy as well as a narrative that is transformative not only in storyline but in its linguistics. In this way, Aycock’s oeuvre has been a synthesis of visual art and language in which myriad investigations unfold in complex scientific, philosophical and intuited systems created to exist equally in two and in three dimensions. The drawings possess an intellectual rigor that is both separate from and conjoined to the sculptures, making them remarkable in their genesis from thought to realization and underscoring their significance as one of the cornerstones in a career spanning some four decades.

See below for full press release and selected works.