Dan Lam Plume For Sale

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.