Dan Lam Gush For Sale

About this work

Gush is a sculptural work created by Dan Lam in 2025, part of her ongoing Color Sculptures series, executed in foam, acrylic, polymer, and resin. Measuring 10 by 12½ by 5½ inches, the work occupies a horizontal, spreading register — a form that suggests liquid abundance, outpouring, and unchecked release. The title is deliberately sensory: to gush is to flow with force and enthusiasm, to pour forth without restraint, and this quality of unchecked generosity animates both the visual logic and the material construction of the work. In Gush, Lam allows her material process to speak in its most expressive register. The polymer and resin forms flow and accumulate with a freedom that pushes against the boundaries of the sculptural body, extending in drips and cascades that trace the paths taken by the material during the work's creation. The Color Sculptures series showcases Lam's mastery of chromatic saturation: layered acrylics build toward hues of extraordinary intensity that shift and deepen as light conditions change. The work's horizontal spread gives it a generosity of presence quite different from the contained energy of Lam's more compact pieces — Gush is a work that gives of itself freely and abundantly. Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry based in Dallas, Texas, whose practice has attracted global recognition for its extraordinary synthesis of organic formal intelligence and material innovation. Working with polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin, she constructs sculptures that sit in the productive space between desire and discomfort, between the beautiful and the biologically strange. Lam's work has been shown in major galleries and is held in significant private collections internationally. Gush, created in 2025, represents a compelling recent addition to her Color Sculptures body of work.