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Dan Lam - Shiver, 2025, Foam, Acrylic, Resin, Polymer

Shiver, 2025

Foam, Acrylic, Resin, Polymer

11 x 12 x 6 1/2 in 27.9 x 30.5 x 16.5 cm

About this work

Dan Lam is a Vietnamese-American artist recognized for her vibrant, otherworldly sculptures that blur the boundaries between beauty and repulsion. Her works often feature amorphous, organic forms covered in glossy, iridescent, or spiky textures, evoking associations with living organisms, alien life, and fantastical landscapes. Using materials like polyurethane foam, resin, and acrylic paint, Lam manipulates color and surface to create pieces that seem to drip, ooze, or grow—appearing both alluring and unsettling. She plays with contrasts: soft forms with sharp spikes, bright colors with strange, tactile surfaces, and playful aesthetics with underlying tension. Lam’s sculptures challenge traditional ideas of form and taste, inviting viewers to reconsider their instinctive reactions to texture and shape. Drawing inspiration from nature, biology, and digital culture, her work taps into the visual language of both the natural world and hyper-saturated online imagery. The result is a body of work that is instantly recognizable, unapologetically bold, and deeply engaging on both a sensory and conceptual level.

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Edition & Provenance

Year
2025
Medium
Foam, Acrylic, Resin, Polymer

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Explore Dan Lam's Color Sculptures series, a striking collection that showcases the artist's innovative approach to contemporary sculptural practice. This dynamic body of work features iconic pieces including Sit With It, Trine, Shiver, Sag, Waning, A Little Off, Dope, and Drape, among twenty total works that demonstrate Lam's distinctive use of vibrant color and organic form.

The Color Sculptures series represents a pivotal moment in Lam's artistic evolution, combining fluid, sensuous shapes with bold chromatic choices that challenge traditional sculptural conventions. Each work exhibits the artist's signature technique and material mastery, creating pieces that engage viewers both intellectually and aesthetically.

As Dan Lam's work continues to gain recognition within the contemporary art market, the Color Sculptures series remains highly sought after by collectors. These sculptures offer significant investment potential while serving as striking focal points in any serious contemporary art collection.

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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.

Guy Hepner works with collectors seeking Dan Lam's tactile, colorful sculptural work. Contact us to discuss available inventory.

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