Article: Alice Aycock. (exhibit at the John Weber Gallery, New York, New York) (Reviews)

JOHN WEBER GALLERY

In this startlingly seductive show sculptures, drawings, and texts conspired to create an absurd parallel universe replete with desire and violence. Aycock's work invoked a dizzying array of esoteric allusions, including references to the Hebrew Cabala and Max Planck's theory of quantum physics. The three complex sculptures--two recent works and a "blade machine" from 1984--evoked amusement-park architecture, ancient astronomical devices, and alarmingly oversized pocket games and pinwheels. Together, all the pieces in the show meditated on our psychological investment in understanding the universe: in six of the seven ink drawings precisely drawn ...

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