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Dan Lam Plume For Sale
Dan Lam
Plume, 2025
Foam, acrylic, polymer, resin
17 x 14 x 7 1/2 in 43.2 x 35.6 x 19.1 cm
About this work
Plume belongs to Dan Lam's Chrome series, created in 2025 using her signature combination of foam, acrylic, polymer, and resin. Unlike the candy-bright saturation of her Color Sculptures, the Chrome series marks a deliberate tonal shift — surfaces assume a reflective, metallic quality that plays with ambient light, transforming the tactile organic mass into something simultaneously industrial and alive. Measuring 17 by 14 by 7½ inches, Plume possesses a substantial physical presence that commands the space around it. The title evokes something rising and dispersing — a plume of smoke, a bird's ornamental crown, or the crest of a breaking wave. Lam's form extends and spreads with an organic logic that feels both studied and spontaneous, as though caught mid-surge. The chrome treatment imbues the surface with a mirror-like quality, allowing viewers to glimpse their own reflections refracted across the contours of the sculptural mass, collapsing the distance between observer and object. The spiked and dripping elements that are hallmarks of Lam's practice take on new resonance in this metallic register. Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry based in Dallas, Texas, whose work has earned international recognition and a devoted audience drawn to her mastery of material tension. Her sculptures — built from polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin — occupy the charged space between the alluring and the unsettling, provoking simultaneous feelings of desire and discomfort. Lam has exhibited in galleries across the United States and internationally, and Plume, as a work from the Chrome series, represents a significant evolution in her ongoing investigation into form, surface, and sensory response.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Foam, acrylic, polymer, resin
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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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