[3] Intermittently after 1953, while raising three young children, she attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where she studied with Catharine Rembert, among others, and earned a B.A.
"While her meticulously assembled boxes and collages prepared from bits of cut-out art history books, encyclopedias, and other historical texts recall artists like Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwitters, and Bruce Conner, it is the subversive spirit of Duchamp that has had the most profound impact on her work," according to Bradley Bailey.
Its catalogue includes essays by Sloan, Rosamond Purcell, and an appendix by the artist that serves as a sort of concordance, listing, among other content, the well-over 100 artists and works whose eyes are seen in Casablanca (classic version), as well as the contents of the 26 collaged cigar boxes that comprise Encyclopædia (2000): found objects sorted alphabetically by box.
In addition to dozens in South Carolina and around the southeast, Aldwyth's work has appeared in group exhibitions in New York (including at Alan Stone Gallery and Francis M. Naumann Fine Art), Colorado, Connecticut, and Washington, DC.
[8] A 2021 documentary film about the artist, Aldwyth: Fully Assembled, produced by Olympia Stone, premiered on South Carolina Public Television in March 2022.
[11] “This is not: Aldwyth in Retrospect” premiered at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design, spanning from February 2nd to October 7, 2023 before it moved to Greenville County from May 1, 2024 to July 28, 2024.