“Much of my work in both the public and private spheres has been a meditation on the philosophical ramifications of technology from the simplest tool (the arrowhead and the plow) to the computer. Many of these works have incorporated images of wheels and turbines and references to energy in the form of spirals, whirlwinds, whirlpools, spinning tops, whirly-gigs, and so on.

The Twister-like forms depicted in the Devil Whirls prints relate to my Turbulence Series, which culminated in 2014 with Park Avenue Paper Chase. 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 threedimensional massing of forms. The forms suggest waves, wind turbulence, turbines, and vortexes of energy. 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.”

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Alice Aycock has lived in New York City since 1968. She has been represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin since 2010 and has had solo exhibitions at Marlborough Gallery in 2017, 2020, and 2023. A retrospective was exhibited at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany in 2019. In 2013, a retrospective of her drawings and small sculptures was held at the Parrish Art Museum and the Grey Art Gallery in New York. A retrospective was held at Storm King (1990) and a traveling retrospective organized by the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (1983). A series of seven sculptures were installed in New York City, entitled Park Avenue Paper Chase (2014), in collaboration with Galerie Thomas Schulte. Aycock was part of the exhibition “Groundswell: Women of Land Art” at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2023). She is currently constructing a building as part of Art Omi Pavilions, a new 190-acre art center in Chatham, NY, led by Francis Greenburger. Her Pavilion will debut in late 2026 with a new permanent artwork as well as historical installations.

Aycock’s sculptures can be found in numerous private and public collections including East River Park Pavilion, NYC (1995/2014); San Francisco Public Library (1996); Fallon Building, Baltimore (2004); Nashville, TN (2008);Washington Dulles Int’l Airport (2012); MGM National Harbor, MD (2016); Pier27, Toronto (2017 and 2021); Capital One Headquarters, McLean, VA (2018);NYU Abu Dhabi (2019); Port Everglades Cruise Terminal, FL (2019); Jingu Gaien, Tokyo (2020); Des Moines Int’l Airport (2022); McNay Art Museum (2023); and IQHQ RaDD, San Diego (2024). Six sculptures were installed in an outdoor solo exhibition at the Royal Djurgården in Stockholm (2020), from which they acquired a work for their collection. The City of Borås, Sweden also acquired a permanent large-scale sculpture the following year. A large-scale exterior sculpture for Muskegon Museum of Art was unveiled at the end of 2025.

In January 2024, the Child Mind Institute moved its headquarters to a new 82,000-square-foot space in Midtown Manhattan. From the beginning, our new home was envisioned not only as a place for clinical care and research, but as a space that feels comforting, human, and inviting for children, teens, and their families. In order to support this vision, CMI established a comprehensive Art Program to foster meaningful engagement between our patients and the artwork around them. Through a thoughtfully curated permanent collection and integrated installations, the program helps create an environment that is stimulating, flexible, and collaborative —a space where we will help tens of thousands of children from 49 states, Washington, DC, and 45 nations over the coming decades and inspire current and future scientists to change the child mental health field as we know it. We hope that the digital archive will give patients and their families further opportunity to explore the collection and learn more about the talented artists that have contributed to our space.