About Alice Aycock

  • Biography

    Alice Aycock, known for her large-scale installation sculptures, many of them outdoor pieces, refers to her work as "psycho-architecture" because they invite the viewer into mysterious interiors and often arouse feelings of claustrophobia or vertigo. Many of her pieces result from her observations of the affects of industrialization on human beings.

    Aycock was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After completing her undergraduate work at Douglass, she earned a masters degree from Hunter College. Currently (2007) she is Director of Sculpture at Yale University.

    Ms. Haycock had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1977, has had two retrospective exhibitions since then at MOMA, and for that the museum built ...

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