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Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks - Alice Aycock
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Alice Aycock discusses her "twisted bridges" sculpture on the waterfront in Nashville. Ms. Aycock describes the sculpture's near-drowning when the river flooded in early 2010.
Alice Aycock Alice Aycock was born in Harrisburg, PA. She received a B.A. from Douglass College and an M.A. from Hunter College. She was represented by the John Weber Gallery in New York City from 1976 through 2001 and has exhibited in major museums and galleries in the Americas, Europe, and Japan. Alice's work is found in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Los Angeles County Museum, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany.
Alice Aycock's public sculptures can be found in major cities throughout the United States including New York City, San Francisco, Nashville, Dallas, and Philadelphia. In collaboration with Nicholas Quennell of the landscape firm of Quennell Rothschild Associates and HOK/TCA, Associated Architects for the New York Hospital, she designed a sculptural roof installation, East River Roundabout, for the new East River Park Pavilion at 60th Street in New York City. The MIT Press published the artist's first hardcover monograph in 2005, entitled Alice Aycock, Sculpture and Projects, authored by Robert Hobbs. She has taught at numerous colleges and universities including Yale University (1988-92) and as the Director of Graduate Sculpture Studies (1991-92). She has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1991.
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Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks - Alice Aycock
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This video discusses the public art process and how Nashville acquired "Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks," by Alice Aycock, for the city.
Alice Aycock Alice Aycock was born in Harrisburg, PA. She received a B.A. from Douglass College and an M.A. from Hunter College. She was represented by the John Weber Gallery in New York City from 1976 through 2001 and has exhibited in major museums and galleries in the Americas, Europe, and Japan. Alice's work is found in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Los Angeles County Museum, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany.
Alice Aycock's public sculptures can be found in major cities throughout the United States including New York City, San Francisco, Nashville, Dallas, and Philadelphia. In collaboration with Nicholas Quennell of the landscape firm of Quennell Rothschild Associates and HOK/TCA, Associated Architects for the New York Hospital, she designed a sculptural roof installation, East River Roundabout, for the new East River Park Pavilion at 60th Street in New York City. The MIT Press published the artist's first hardcover monograph in 2005, entitled Alice Aycock, Sculpture and Projects, authored by Robert Hobbs. She has taught at numerous colleges and universities including Yale University (1988-92) and as the Director of Graduate Sculpture Studies (1991-92). She has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1991.
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