Play Date: Toys by Artists

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 the Netherlands. He has exhibited internationally, including at the Berkeley Art Museum, The Kaneko, Resché Ateliér in Paris, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and represented the United States at the 2017 International Sculpture Biennale in Wuhan, China. Chin lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sarah Ippolito (b. 1986, Houston; based in Altadena/Los Angeles) works in sculpture, installation, and drawing informed by scuba diving. Her biomorphic forms explore ocean biodiversity and nonhuman sensory worlds through color, texture, and magnified scale. BFA University of Houston; MFA SAIC; solos at Various Small Fires, Not There, A+D Museum; Henrik Vibskov P:I:G Award (2023).