Alice Aycock in ‘Wild At Heart’ at Marlborough Gallery

Alice Aycock’s sizeable ‘Wavy Enneper’ sculpture in Marlborough Gallery’s summer group show is tantalizingly familiar, resembling an underwater organism or a fungus. However, its enticingly curving, dynamic form was actually inspired by a diagram of a self-intersecting surface introduced by 19th century German mathematician Alfred Enneper. (On view in Chelsea through Sept 11th).

Alice Aycock, Wavy Enneper, fiberglass, aluminum and acrylic, ed of 3 + 1AP, 84 x 116 3/8 x 102 inches, 2011.