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Dan Lam Void For Sale
Dan Lam
Void, 2025
Foam, acrylic, resin, polymer
20 x 21 x 7 in ; 50.8 x 53.3 x 17.8 cm
About this work
Dan Lam is a Vietnamese-American artist recognized for her vibrant, otherworldly sculptures that blur the boundaries between beauty and repulsion. Her works often feature amorphous, organic forms covered in glossy, iridescent, or spiky textures, evoking associations with living organisms, alien life, and fantastical landscapes. Using materials like polyurethane foam, resin, and acrylic paint, Lam manipulates color and surface to create pieces that seem to drip, ooze, or grow—appearing both alluring and unsettling. She plays with contrasts: soft forms with sharp spikes, bright colors with strange, tactile surfaces, and playful aesthetics with underlying tension. Lam’s sculptures challenge traditional ideas of form and taste, inviting viewers to reconsider their instinctive reactions to texture and shape. Drawing inspiration from nature, biology, and digital culture, her work taps into the visual language of both the natural world and hyper-saturated online imagery. The result is a body of work that is instantly recognizable, unapologetically bold, and deeply engaging on both a sensory and conceptual level.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Foam, acrylic, resin, polymer
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About the Black Sculptures Series
Explore Dan Lam's Black Sculptures series, a compelling body of work that showcases the artist's mastery of form and materiality. This collection represents a pivotal moment in Lam's practice, where deep, resonant blacks dominate the aesthetic while exploring themes of void, absence, and spatial presence. Each piece, including the striking work Void, demonstrates Lam's signature technique and conceptual depth.
The Black Sculptures series has gained considerable attention within contemporary art circles, reflecting growing collector interest in Lam's dimensional and tactile approach. These works command respect for their technical precision and philosophical undertones, making them significant additions to discerning collections.
Whether you're an established collector or discovering Lam's work for the first time, the Black Sculptures series offers substantial investment potential alongside undeniable aesthetic power. Each sculpture invites intimate viewing and rewards sustained contemplation.
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About Dan Lam
Dan Lam earned a BFA from the University of North Texas in 2010, followed by an MFA from Arizona State University in 2014, where she began developing the sculptural techniques that would come to define her practice.
Lam creates drippy, blob like sculptures using polyurethane foam, resin, and acrylic, often finished with auto body paint that shifts color as viewers move around the piece. Her work sits at the border of attraction and repulsion, taking cues from natural forms found in the body and the ocean while pushing them into something stranger and more excessive. Materials play a defining role in her process, and she often allows their behavior to guide the final shape of a piece rather than working from a fixed plan.
Lam's sculptures have been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally, including at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, along with shows in Paris and Munich. Her work has also reached a wide audience through social media, where her process videos and finished pieces have drawn broad public attention beyond the traditional gallery world.
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