Artist Talk: Alan Chin and Sophia Quach McCabe, Ph.D.
Sat, May 23
|AMPHI Gallery
For this special conversation, join artist Alan Chin and curator Sophia Quach McCabe, Ph.D. as they discuss the new body of work presented in Alan Chin: Palimpsests.
Time & Location
May 23, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
AMPHI Gallery, 49 W Del Mar Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91105, USA
About the event
For this special conversation, join artist Alan Chin and curator Sophia Quach McCabe, Ph.D. as they discuss the new body of work presented in Alan Chin: Palimpsests. Together, they will explore the multidimensional nature of Chin’s interdisciplinary practice across painting, ceramics, and sculptural form, as well as the exhibition’s curatorial development and final presentation at AMPHI Gallery.
Alan Chin (b. 1987, Berkeley, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses material process to explore how meaning is shaped through everyday forms and actions. Working across sculpture, painting, installation, performance, and film, Chin examines systems, repetition, and transformation as ways to consider labor, perception, and social experience. His projects often engage the tension between structure and instability, revealing how objects carry cultural, emotional, and historical significance through use and time.
Chin received his BFA in Ceramics and Painting from California College of the Arts in 2011, with additional study at Academie Minerva in…