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Dan Lam - Glyph, 2023, Foam, acrylic, polymer, resin

Glyph, 2023

Foam, acrylic, polymer, resin

9 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 in 24.1 x 11.4 x 10.2 cm

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Unique

About this work

Glyph is a unique sculptural work created by Dan Lam in 2023, realized in foam, acrylic, polymer, and resin as part of her Color Sculptures series. At 9½ by 4½ by 4 inches, it is among the more slender and concentrated works in this series — a form that rises with quiet authority in an elongated, almost column-like silhouette. The title references the glyph: a carved or incised symbol, a unit of meaning communicated through mark-making and material inscription, existing at the boundary between object and sign. There is something of the artifact about Glyph — as though the sculpture has been recovered rather than made, excavated from some deep stratum of cultural memory in which symbol and object are not yet distinct. Lam's characteristic drips and polymer accretions read here as marks and inscriptions, traces of process that double as a kind of visual language. The concentrated scale of the work intensifies these associations, giving it the density of a significant object — a talisman, a carved stone — while its vivid Color Sculptures palette situates it firmly in the contemporary. The chromatic intensity of the layered acrylics gives the surface an inner luminosity that animates the work from within. Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry who has developed one of the most instantly recognizable sculptural vocabularies of her generation. Working with non-traditional industrial materials — polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin — she creates forms that animate complex and often paradoxical responses: the desire to touch alongside a subtle revulsion, the sense of beauty bound to something strange and other. Lam has exhibited widely across the United States and internationally, and her work has attracted a devoted collector base and significant critical attention. As a unique work, Glyph is a singular, irrepeatable object — one of a kind in both its material and conceptual execution.

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Year
2023
Medium
Foam, acrylic, polymer, resin
Edition
Unique

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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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