Dan Lam Wane For Sale

About this work

Wane is a sculptural work created by Dan Lam in 2025, part of her Chrome series, executed in foam, acrylic, polymer, and resin. At 17½ by 7½ by 5½ inches, the work is notably elongated and vertical — a form that stretches upward while suggesting, through its title, a gradual diminishment. To wane is to decrease in strength or extent, to move from fullness toward absence — the moon wanes, light wanes, power wanes. Lam engages this natural process of recession as sculptural subject matter. The Chrome series, of which Wane is a part, represents a significant departure from the vivid saturated hues of Lam's Color Sculptures. Here, the surface assumes a metallic, reflective quality — surfaces that catch and redistribute ambient light with an almost liquid fluency. This chrome treatment invests the work's downward formal suggestions with additional resonance: the metallic surface reads as both industrial and precious, both hard and, in its reflectivity, somehow fluid. The drips and polymer accretions characteristic of Lam's practice take on new associations in this reflective register — they become like traces of cooling metal, hardening in the act of descent. Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry based in Dallas, Texas, whose work has earned significant international attention and a devoted collector following. Her practice explores the charged intersection between organic form and industrial material, building sculptures from polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin that seem simultaneously alive and manufactured. The Chrome series represents an evolution in Lam's ongoing investigation into surface, material, and the phenomenology of looking. Wane, created in 2025, is a compelling recent work that extends and deepens the conceptual ambitions of this important series.