Alan Chan, the Creative Director of “ALGO-” seeks to transport those who step into his garments to create escapist opportunities for individuals to feel wonder, play, and freedom. Escapists and daydreamers are invited into his world of deconstructed science fantasy through anatomical design and engineering.
Born and raised in Chicago and currently based in his home city!
While fashion acts as his current primary medium of world building, his experience within multiple mediums gives into spurs of spontaneous object designs and installation spaces where his world expands into ours, enabling his momentary suspension of reality to become fully immersive.
Today, Alan continues his practice within the medium of fashion design. Exploring binary relationships and how algorithmic planes of thinking contribute to structuring ones perception of the world. Throughout his practice while creating he considers and pulls from the following…
Deconstruction & Inversion (things that resemble other things in an unexpected format, interpretation, environment, etc.)
Surrealistic Sci-Fi (futuristic augmentations to lifestyle/biology)
High Fantasy (magic, fantastical objects, mythical animals)
Industrial/Cityscape Imagery (scaffolding, warehouses, skyscrapers)
“Sandy”, exhibited at The Zhou B Art Center for the 3rd Annual Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts “Are We Here Yet?”.
May 16th, 2025 - July 13th, 2025
