Alice Wang. Hverir, Iceland. Film still, Pyramids and Parabolas III, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned by the Vincent Price Art Museum.

Saturday, July 27, 1:30 PM – 3:00PM

Join us Saturday, July 27, 1:30 PM – 3:00PM for a conversation with artist Alice Wang, JOAN Executive Director Suzy Halajian, and VPAM Director Steven Wong.

The discussion, moderated by Halajian, will focus on Wang’s latest iteration of the film Pyramids and Parabolas III as the centerpiece of the exhibition, and how her sculptural and print works create a kinship between humans and everything else in the universe through the language of minimalism and post-minimalism, and their connection to the cosmos and the notion of nature.

Generous support for this program is provided through a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Additional support provided by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan. All exhibitions at the Vincent Price Art Museum are underwritten by the Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation and East Los Angeles College.

Alice Wang received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto, a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and an MFA from New York University. She was an arts fellow at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Villa Aurora fellow in Berlin. In 2021, Wang was shortlisted for the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel Hong Kong, and she has been a grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts since 2016. Wang has presented solo exhibitions at the UCCA Dune Art Museum, Beidaihe, China; Capsule Shanghai (2017, 2021); Human Resources, Los Angeles; and 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, among others. She has also presented work at the Hammer Museum, Galleria Continua, Para Site, Galerie Urs Meile, and the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Mousse Magazine, ArtReview Asia, ArtAsiaPacific, and the Los Angeles Times. Wang will be an artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in December. She lives and works in New York.

Suzy Halajian is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles. She is Executive Director and Curator at JOAN. She has curated exhibitions and programs at spaces including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, The Hammer Museum, and Human Resources, Los Angeles; Oregon Contemporary, Portland; Kunstverein, Amsterdam; UKS, Oslo; and the Sursock Museum, Beirut. Halajian serves on the Programming Committee of Human Resources Los Angeles. She has been granted research and writing grants from the Graham Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant for the collaborative journal Georgia, and a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her writing has been published by ArtEast, BOMB, X-TRA, and Ibraaz, among others. Halajian is a PhD candidate in the Film and Digital Media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.