Dan Lam Sprout For Sale

About this work

Sprout is a sculptural work created by Dan Lam in 2025, realized in foam, acrylic, polymer, and resin as part of her Color Sculptures series. Its dimensions — 9 by 17½ by 9½ inches — emphasize verticality, the form rising upward with an energy that the title makes explicit: to sprout is to emerge, to push through, to grow toward light. This upward impulse gives the work a vitality distinct from Lam's more settled, grounded forms, suggesting something nascent and insistently generative. Lam's sculptural practice is deeply engaged with ideas of organic growth, and Sprout channels this engagement into a form that makes growth its central metaphor and formal logic. The characteristic polymers and resin drips of the Color Sculptures series take on additional associations here — they read as the tendrils and secretions of a germinating plant, of something pushing through substrate toward air and light. The work's vertical emphasis is reinforced by its elongated silhouette, which rises and perhaps bifurcates toward its upper reaches, giving the impression of a living form in the act of reaching. The saturated acrylics lend the surface an almost bioluminescent quality in this botanical context. Dan Lam is an American sculptor of Vietnamese ancestry whose tactile, vibrantly colored sculptures have attracted a global following and earned significant critical recognition. Working with polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, and epoxy resin, she has developed a practice that explores the productive tension between the organic and the synthetic, the beautiful and the unsettling. Lam's work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and internationally, and her presence in both gallery and digital contexts has introduced her practice to an enthusiastic and growing audience. Sprout, created in 2025, reflects the continuing vitality of her Color Sculptures body of work.