Artwork copyright Alice Aycock. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Alice Aycock. Photo courtesy of the artist (detail).

Artwork copyright Alice Aycock. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Alice Aycock. Photo courtesy of Western Washington University, by Paul Bower.

Artwork copyright Alice Aycock. Photo courtesy of the artist.

The Islands of the Rose Apple Tree Surrounded by the Oceans of the World for You, Oh My Darling, 1987

Alice Aycock
(American, born 1946)

Location: Western Washington University, Bellingham

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Alice Aycock builds on historic and religious references—in architecture, painting, and illustration—in her interpretation of Mount Meru, a sacred mountain considered the center of the world in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. The work acts as fountain, contrasting the natural and the manmade, as water courses through the negative spaces formed by the cast concrete.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Western Washington University.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alice Aycock is a sculptor and installation artist. She was an early participant in the land art movement in the 1970s. Her artworks combine architecture and mechanical fantasies with logic, imagination, magical thinking, and science.

Aycock received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Douglass College at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She received a Master of Arts degree from Hunter College, City University of New York. She has also taught at Yale University in Connecticut and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She served as Yale University’s Director of Graduate Sculpture Studies.