Alice Wang

Alice Wang is a New York-based sculptor whose work uses meteorites, fossils, beeswax, and geological fieldwork to explore the relationship between scientific measurement and embodied experience.

Meteorites, fossils, beeswax, moss, hand-painted glass tiles. Alice Wang's sculpture starts with matter that has already traveled enormous distances in time. Her research takes her to the Arctic Circle, Biosphere 2, the San Andreas Fault, and SpaceX facilities, not for spectacle but as a method: the body at geological and cosmic sites as the actual instrument of knowing. The hexagon keeps returning in her work: a geometry that shows up identically at the molecular scale and at the surface of Saturn's pole, stable but unexplained. That irresolvable echo is the territory Wang keeps working. The question underneath everything is whether what can be measured and what can only be sensed are really different things.