On This Spot Newsletter — April 2025

On This Spot tells the stories of a diverse group of women artists through short-form documentaries. Join us as we put women artists on the map.

Video Spotlight – Alice Aycock

A Principal of the Land Art Movement



Alice Aycock’s 1972 work “Maze” – tall stockade fencing in concentric circles on farmland -- was an icon of the Land Art movement. She became renowned for her later monumental public sculptures, combining art and architecture, and built on a childhood love of narrative literature. Her works contain psychological ambiguity. Towering, swirling white metal ribbon tornadoes set against New York office buildings were both beautiful and dangerous.


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Save the Date – Tuesday, May 6th, 6:30pm

On This Spot Season Three Premiere

Anthology Film Archives

On This Spot NYC: Stories of Pioneering Women Artists presents the premiere of its third season of short documentaries. This series is devoted to uncovering the histories of women artists who reshaped the cultural landscape of New York. This year, the focus is on the Lower East Side.


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Further reading on Spot artists

Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects

by Robert Hobbs


In Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects, Robert Hobbs examines the development of Aycock's work over twenty years and her negotiation—along with other artists who came of age in the early 1970s—of the transition from modernism to postmodernism.

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