Alice Aycock
Storm King Art Center
Alice Aycock’s retrospective, “Complex Visions,” which marks the 30th anniversary of Storm King, both continued and challenged the outdoor sculpture park’s prevailing conditions. Aycock’s level of accomplishment was equal to Storm King’s pageant of art, but it was her display of restless intelligence, unreined curiosity, and rebellious departure that made the exhibition remarkable.
Aycock’s delight in mismatched ideas from philosophical, scientific, and cultural sources complicates and enriches her work, and this exhibition confirmed an ever-widening, discursive outlook. Low Building with Dirt