On the heels of Alice Aycock’s two-part retrospective Some Stories are Worth Repeating, shown at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU and Parrish Art Museum, NY, with plans well underway for her May 2014 Park Avenue installation Paper Chase.
Richard J. Goldstein is BOMB’s Archive Editor interviewed the artist on Jun 24, 2013. See the video.
For the Park Avenue project I tried to visualize the movement of wind energy as it flowed up and down the Avenue creating random whirlpools, touching down here and there and sometimes forming dynamic three-dimensional massing of forms. The sculptural assemblages suggest waves, wind turbulence, turbines, and vortexes of energy. One of the works, in particular, references the expressive quality of wind through drapery and the chaotic beauty of fluid/flow dynamics. As much as the sculptures are obviously placed on the mall, I wanted the work to have a random, haphazard quality – in some cases, piling up on itself, in others spinning off into the air. Much of the energy of the city is invisible. It is the energy of thought and ideas colliding and being transmitted outward. The works are the metaphorical visual residue of the energy of New York City.
