- Artist/Maker:
- Alice Aycock
- Bio:
- American, b. 1946
- Title:
- Greased Lightning
- Date:
- 1984
- Medium:
- Steel, galvanized sheet metal, theatrical rainbow lights, incandescent light, glass, and motorized parts
- Dimensions:
- 56 × 71 15/16 × 71 15/16 in. (142.2 × 182.8 × 182.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Miriam R. Passerman, Louise & Gabriel Rosenfeld, and Steven & Harriet Passerman in memory of Maxwell W. Passerman
- Accession Number:
- 1989-80
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Alice Aycock conveys a child's awe in seeing the multiple lights of Hanukkah. She adapts another feature of the holiday, the dreidel - a small, inscribed top that children play with during this festival - as her principal element. Transposing her interest in science and games of chance into a giant-sized kinetic version of the dreidel, she electrifies the top and endows it with a sense of power.
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