Dan Lam’s eye-popping sculptures are difficult to forget. Polymorphous and multitextural, she is inspired by the aesthetics of artists such as Lynda Benglis and Claes Oldenburg, and Tara Donovan’s manipulation of materials. With these influences, Lam creates psychotropic objects that trick the senses.
Lam’s work fuses her interests in design and art, creating visual metaphors that unite her approach to physical substance with her conceptual ideas on objects in general. 'With the drippy sculptures, I look to the body (flesh, skin, foods) and nature (aposematism) for cues. I'm interested in creating these bright, attractive things that begged to be held, but either can't be touched because of the setting, or you can actually touch them, but they're hard and spiky – making them not so inviting.'