Dan Lam

Based in Dallas, Dan creates brightly colored blobs and drip sculptures from polyurethane foam, acrylics and ArtResin, onto which she applies hundreds of meticulously piped spikes. The result is a both a visual and tactile feast - eye candy that you just want to reach out and touch! Dan's work, while curiously beautiful, also evokes a strange otherworld quality ... like amoebas or sea creatures, her sculptures look as though they could start breathing and oozing their way right off the shelf. This idea of beautiful and strange, of co-existing contrast, is where Dan truly shines. From creation to finished piece, her work is a thoughtful balancing act between opposites. Even her artistic process is a contrast: Dan does her best work, creating bright, neon, candy colored works of art, in the darkness of night. ArtResin recently spent some time with Dan in her Dallas studio, to watch her create her signature drip sculptures and to chat about the idea of contrast, her drive to create and the values she holds dear as an artist.