Celebrating its 12th year, Breakfast in the Park happens on the Sunday of Art Basel week Miami, Dec. 6 from 9:30 a.m. – noon at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU . The event is free and open to the public.
This year’s event presents American sculptor Alice Aycock as guest-speaker. Guests enjoy a complimentary outdoor breakfast, informal lecture and guided tours of the Sculpture Park plus the five exhibitions on view in the museum this year during Art Basel week. Presented in partnership with West Kendall Baptist Hospital.
Known for her large-scale, architectural sculptures and site-specific installations, Aycock’s sculptures and public works can be found in collections and sites across the country and around the world, including the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation.
Art Basel’s Breakfast in the Park at the Frost Art Museum FIU draws hundreds of art enthusiasts, patrons, collectors, gallery owners and artists from around the world. Each year, a noted sculptor is invited to speak.
She has created installations at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and in museums throughout Israel, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland and Japan. Aycock has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Documenta VI and VIII in Kassel, Germany and at the Whitney Biennial.
Over the decades, Aycock has drawn inspiration for her massive works from the environment, physics, machinery, psychoanalysis, and computer programming. Other sources of inspiration include amusement parks and science fiction.
A member of New York’s avant-garde downtown scene in the 1970s, Aycock was drawn to the Land Art movement from early on, making site-specific works from earth, wood, stone, and other natural materials that were influenced by phenomenology.
In the 1980s, she began to employ industrial materials like steel, with allusions to the growing presence of machines in our lives. Architecture, too, has been a consistent concern of Aycock’s work. Over the years, Aycock has earned a reputation for grappling with conceptual, scientific, and philosophical questions in a stunningly inventive sculptural language.
Aycock is represented by the Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami, which has generously loaned one of her sculptures to the Frost Art Museum during Art Basel week for Breakfast in the Park 2015.
During Breakfast in the Park, guests can enjoy guided tours of the Sculpture Park that surrounds the Frost Art Museum throughout the campus of Florida International University. View images of the Sculpture Park here – frost.fiu.edu/_assets/docs/
The Presenting Partner for this year’s Breakfast in the Park is West Kendall Baptist Hospital. The event is co-sponsored by Bacardi and InterContinental at Doral Miami.