We Are Extraterrestrial
Vincent Price Art Museum•May 04, 2024 — Aug 03, 2024
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. – The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College proudly presents Alice Wang: We Are Extraterrestrial, opening May 4, 2024.
In her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Alice Wang showcases recent prints and glass sculptures, alongside newly-commissioned large-scale ceramic sculptures, a film, and an artist book that reflect the artist’s deep curiosity for the space between the real and the imaginary. These works are the result of her immersive research trips to space analogs, or sites with similar conditions to extraterrestrial bodies in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and across Iceland and the Arctic.
“By putting myself through the physicality of traveling to these surreal and sublime landscapes, I aimed to shift my Earth-bound perspective, open up the threshold of my anthropocentric perception, and explore the unknown,” said Wang. “The physical boundary of the...More
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We Are Extraterrestrial
Vincent Price Art Museum•May 04, 2024 — Aug 03, 2024
Press Release
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. – The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College proudly presents Alice Wang: We Are Extraterrestrial, opening May 4, 2024.
In her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Alice Wang showcases recent prints and glass sculptures, alongside newly-commissioned large-scale ceramic sculptures, a film, and an artist book that reflect the artist’s deep curiosity for the space between the real and the imaginary. These works are the result of her immersive research trips to space analogs, or sites with similar conditions to extraterrestrial bodies in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and across Iceland and the Arctic.
“By putting myself through the physicality of traveling to these surreal and sublime landscapes, I aimed to shift my Earth-bound perspective, open up the threshold of my anthropocentric perception, and explore the unknown,” said Wang. “The physical boundary of the...More
