Label Text
Internationally acclaimed for her monumental sculptures inspired by engineering and machines, Alice Aycock's drawings and prints adopt the style of mechanical drawing. With its trussed structures, springs, pulleys, ropes, and the grand gesture of a blue spiral, Aycock's screenprint is an exploded diagram for the parts of her "miraculating machine" and relates to a proposal for her sculpture, The Miraculating Machine in the Garden (Tower of the Winds), 1981 (Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2012, she won the Des Moines Public Art Foundation's competition for redesign of the Sixth Avenue bridge over the Des Moines River.
Siurce: News, July Aug Sept 2016.
Publisher
Creative Works Editions, Osaka, Japan
Printer
Fiorenzo Fallani
DimensionsSheet: 39 3/8 × 27 1/2 in. (100 × 69.9 cm)
Accession Number 2016.22
Classificationsprint
SignedAlice Aycock 1992 (l,r graphite)
Inscriptions21/45 (l,l graphite); From the verse, entitled "The Miraculating Machine: Moch Sun & Halos "Round the Moon" (1981) (l,r graphite)
Edition21/45
Collections
Bill Owens
1974-1976, printed 2006
