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

Rising, 2023

Foam, acrylic, polymer, resin

10.5 x 6 x 5.5 in 26.7 x 15.2 x 14 cm

Edition

Unique

About this work

Rising is a unique sculptural work created by Dan Lam in 2023, executed in foam, acrylic, polymer, and resin as part of her Color Sculptures series. Measuring 10½ by 6 by 5½ inches, the work encodes its central formal gesture in its title: the upward movement of matter against the pull of gravity, the assertion of form toward light. Where many of Lam's sculptures appear to cascade or settle toward a surface, Rising declares a different orientation — something reaching, aspiring, ascending. This directional quality is articulated through the sculptural form's organization and through the characteristic material language of Lam's practice. Polymer extensions and resin elements point upward or radiate outward from a central mass, while the drips so essential to her vocabulary work in dynamic tension with the work's upward thrust — gravity pulling against aspiration in a formal negotiation that never fully resolves in either direction. The Color Sculptures series showcases Lam's most expressive chromatic range, with saturated acrylics building toward a visual intensity that makes the surface feel charged and alive. Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry whose practice has earned international recognition for its formal originality and emotional complexity. Built from unconventional industrial materials — polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin — her sculptures occupy a generative tension between the beautiful and the disturbing, the organic and the synthetic. Lam has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, and her work is held in significant private collections around the world. Rising, as a unique work from the Color Sculptures series, is an unrepeatable encounter with the artist's ongoing formal investigation.

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Edition & Provenance

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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