Alice Aycock
Sculpture and Photographs

April 20–May 2, 1974 112 Greene Street/Workshop

Alice Aycock, Stairs – These Stairs Can Be Climbed, installation view, wood, 9’8″ × 14’2″ × 13’4″, 1974

Installation view of Alice Aycock's "Tropico de Cancer" in "Group Show: September 1 - October 18, 1973." Also shown in "Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Photographs, April 20 - May 2, 1974"

Alice Aycock, Tropico de Cancer in Sculpture and Photographs, boundary line, latitude 23.5º N., Tampulipas, Mex., 9 photographs, 8″x10″, 1973

Alice Aycock, Six Semi Architectural Projects, installation view, 1974

Photograph of Alice Aycock's "Maze" from the series "Six Semi-Architectural Projects," exhibited at "Group Show: September 1 - October 18, 1973" and "Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Photographs, April 20 - May 2, 1974"

Alice Aycock, Maze (SE Entrance) in Sculpture and Photographs, 1974

Alice Aycock, Maze (Interior View) in Sculpture and Photographs, 1974

Alice Aycock, Maze in Sculpture and Photographs, 1974

Photograph of "Low Building with Dirt Roof," exhibited in "Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Photographs"

Alice Aycock, Low Building with Dirt Roof in Sculpture and Photographs, 1974

Alice Aycock, Room with Spotlight, installation view, 1974

Alice Aycock, Room with Spotlight, installation view, 1974

Exhibition Discription

In her first one-person show, Alice Aycock featured work from 1971-1974. The earliest pieces were conceptual photographic works, which showed how the artist crossed boundaries and examined directions in nature. Another work, Sun/Glass, documented a piece in which seven rows of mirrors placed in a field reflected the sun’s path across the sky. The artist’s circular wooden maze and low building with stone walls and sod roof (made on a Pennsylvania farm) were also presented through documentary photos. In the workshop, the artist installed an enormous wooden structure entitled Stairs–These Stairs Can Be Climbed.

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.