Personal — Dan Lam

Personal, 2023

Dan Lam - "Personal" (2023) Vibrant, Sensory, and Unmistakably Dan Lam Guy Hepner proudly presents "Personal" (2023) by acclaimed contemporary artist Dan Lam—a striking example of her signature organic, otherworldly sculptural forms. A mesmerizing interplay of texture, color, and form, this artwork exemplifies Lam’s innovative approach to contemporary sculpture. Why Collect "Personal" (2023)? ✔ Original & Handcrafted: One-of-a-kind sculpture, handmade by Dan Lam. ✔ Signature Neon & Texture: Hypnotic hues and signature drippy textures give it an irresistible tactile quality. ✔ Museum-Worthy Artwork: Lam’s work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide and is part of prestigious private collections. ✔ Investment Value: As Dan Lam’s reputation continues to grow, her artworks are highly sought after in both primary and secondary markets. About Dan Lam Dan Lam is a contemporary sculptor known for her vibrant, amorphous creations that blur the line between organic and surreal. Her work plays with color theory, perception, and the tension between attraction and repulsion, often evoking a liquid-like or alien quality. Each piece is meticulously crafted using polyurethane foam, acrylic, and resin—giving them their distinctively drippy, hyper-glossy finish. Foam, acrylic, glue and resin

9 x 11 1/2 x 7 in 22.9 x 29.2 x 17.8 cm

Personal, 2023

9 x 11 1/2 x 7 in 22.9 x 29.2 x 17.8 cm

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Personal is a unique sculptural work created by Dan Lam in 2023, part of her Color Sculptures series, executed in foam, acrylic, resin, and glue. Measuring 9 by 11½ by 7 inches, the work carries a title that is deliberately intimate — personal implies the private, the individual, the particular, something that belongs to and speaks from a specific inner life. In the context of Lam's practice, which produces forms that many viewers describe as viscerally relatable despite their alien strangeness, this intimacy resonates with particular force. Lam's biomorphic sculptures have consistently attracted a response that exceeds the purely aesthetic — viewers report feeling drawn in, unsettled, and strangely moved by forms that seem to embody physical states of vulnerability, overflow, or slow transformation. Personal focuses this quality into a compact, intimate scale at which the work's surface details — drips, polymer extensions, resin flows — can be apprehended at close range, as one might apprehend the surface of something genuinely personal and held with care. The Color Sculptures series showcases Lam's most expressive palette, with saturated acrylics building a chromatic richness appropriate to the intimate register the title invokes. Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry who has developed one of the most compelling and immediately recognizable sculptural vocabularies in contemporary art. Her practice — employing polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, resin, and related materials — has attracted a global following and significant institutional attention. Lam's sculptures navigate the territory between desire and discomfort with consummate formal intelligence, and each unique work in the Color Sculptures series stands as a singular encounter with this practice. Personal, as a unique work from 2023, invites precisely the intimate, sustained engagement its title promises.

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Year: 2023
Medium: Dan Lam - "Personal" (2023) Vibrant, Sensory, and Unmistakably Dan Lam Guy Hepner proudly presents "Personal" (2023) by acclaimed contemporary artist Dan Lam—a striking example of her signature organic, otherworldly sculptural forms. A mesmerizing interplay of texture, color, and form, this artwork exemplifies Lam’s innovative approach to contemporary sculpture. Why Collect "Personal" (2023)? ✔ Original & Handcrafted: One-of-a-kind sculpture, handmade by Dan Lam. ✔ Signature Neon & Texture: Hypnotic hues and signature drippy textures give it an irresistible tactile quality. ✔ Museum-Worthy Artwork: Lam’s work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide and is part of prestigious private collections. ✔ Investment Value: As Dan Lam’s reputation continues to grow, her artworks are highly sought after in both primary and secondary markets. About Dan Lam Dan Lam is a contemporary sculptor known for her vibrant, amorphous creations that blur the line between organic and surreal. Her work plays with color theory, perception, and the tension between attraction and repulsion, often evoking a liquid-like or alien quality. Each piece is meticulously crafted using polyurethane foam, acrylic, and resin—giving them their distinctively drippy, hyper-glossy finish. Foam, acrylic, glue and 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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