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Alice Aycock
Hoodoo (Laura), from the series 'How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts.' Vertical and Horizontal Cross-Sections of the Ether Wind1981, refabricated 1987

Not on view
Large-scale outdoor metal sculpture with a white rectangular tube-frame structure enclosing a polished chrome sphere, looping white pipes, and a black panel on a cobalt blue base, installed on a concrete platform
Artist or Maker
Alice Aycock
United States, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, born 1946
Title
Hoodoo (Laura), from the series 'How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts.' Vertical and Horizontal Cross-Sections of the Ether Wind
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1981, refabricated 1987
Medium
Copper, galvanized sheet metal, glass heating coils, incandescent light bulbs, iron, lead, motors, neon, steel, and steel cable
Dimensions
28 x 35 ft. (8.53 x 13.21 m)
Credit Line
Gift of the 1986 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
M.86.233
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Fox, Howard N. Avant-Garde In The Eighties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1991. vol. 28-29, no. 12-1 (December, 1990-January, 1992).