City College of New York Architecture Library

Alice Aycock: Selected Bibliography

“Alice Aycock: Selected Works” Spitzer School of Architecture Lecture – November 1, 2012

About:

Sculptor Alice Aycock earned her MA from Hunter College. Her work is in the permanent collections of major museums including MoMA, The Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Gallery. Existing outdoor works of public art include a sculptural roof installation―the East River Roundabout, for The East River Park Pavilion at 60th St. in NYC; The Solar Wind, in Salem, VA; The House Of Stoics, in Lake Biwa, Japan; the Tower Of Babel, in Buhsnami Sculpture Garden near Houston, Texas; and The Island of the Moons and Suns, Robert Orton's sculpture garden in La Jolla, CA. She received the Americans for the Arts Public Art Award in 2008 for Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks in Nashville. The artist has taught at Yale and other colleges and currently teaches at NYC’s School of Visual Arts. In 2013 there will be a retrospective of her drawings at the new Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY and at the Grey Art Gallery in NYC. In spring ` 2014 a series of her sculptures will be installed on the Park Avenue Malls in the city, entitled Park Avenue Paper Chase.

Books:

“ Indelible marker, palimpsest, thin air / Alice Aycock – Landscape.” in Spatial recall : memory in architecture and landscape. New York ; London : Routledge, 2009. NA2765 .S62 2009.

Fox, Howard N.: Metaphor : new projects by contemporary sculptors : Vito Acconci, Siah Armajani, Alice Aycock, Lauren Ewing, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim. Smithsonian Institution, 1982. Cohen Library NB212 .F68 X

Laumeier Sculpture Park: Ten Sites: Works, Artists, Years. Reinhardt, Debra L. 1992. On Order

Sitings: Alice Aycock/Richard Fleischner/Mary Miss/George Trakas. Hugh Marlais Davies. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986. On Reserve NB212 .D38 1986 Sondheim, Alan, editor, Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America, Work 1972-1974. Alice Aycock. Dutton, 1977. On Reserve NX504.I53 1977

Spatial recall : memory in architecture and landscape. Routledge, 2009. pp. 86-105. NA2765 .S62 2009

Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art. Cornelia H. Butler. MOMA, 2010 On Reserve N8354 .M63 2010

“Two Fantasies of a Mythical Waterworks.” By James Freed and Alice Aycock. In Collaboration, artists and architects: the centennial project of the Architectural League. Whitney Library of Design,1981. pp152–155. NA3320 .C64 ______Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library except where noted.

Articles: (Selected from 1986 to 2008)

“Excavating Land Art by Women in the 1970s: Discoveries and Oversights.” Boettger, Suzaan. Sculpture (Washington, D.C.), November 2008, Vol. 27 Issue 9, p38-45, 8p. Available online to CCNY users through Art Full Text in the library’s databases.

“Celebrating the Public Art of Alice Aycock.” Tinti, Mary M. Woman's Art Journal.Fall/Winter. 2008, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p3-11, 9p. Available online to CCNY users through Art Full Text in the library’s databases.

“Commissions.” Aycock, Alice. (Washington, D.C.), January/February 2008, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p22-23, 2p. Available online to CCNY users through Art Full Text in the library’s databases.

“Alice Aycock: Public Artist.” Rapaport, Brooke Kamin. Sculpture (Washington, D.C.), December 2003, Vol. 22 Issue 10, p32-37, 6p. Available online to CCNY users through Art Full Text in the library’s databases. . “THE ARCHITECTS.” Rothkopf, Scott. Artforum International. Mar2003, Vol. 41 Issue 7, p46. 3p. Cohen Library bound periodicals-1st floor.

“Alice Aycock. “ Meyer, James. Artforum International. Summer96, Vol. 34 Issue 10, p106. 5/8p. Cohen Library bound periodicals-1st floor. Cohen Library bound periodicals-1st floor.

“Alice Aycock.” Weber, John. ARTnews. May93, Vol. 92 Issue 5, p131. Cohen Library bound periodicals-1st floor.

“{Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, N.Y; exhibit}.” Phillips, Patricia C.. Artforum International. October 1990, Vol. 29, p173-174, 2p. Cohen Library bound periodicals-1st floor.

“The Ghost in the machine. Alice Aycock's constructions “ Poirier, Maurice. ARTnews,October 1986, Vol. 85, p78-85, 8p. Available online to CCNY users through Art Full Text in the library’s databases.

Web Sites:

Alice Aycock Web Site: www.aaycock.com/abouttheartist.html

______Judy Connorton, Architecture Librarian October 2012 Image: art21.org