Conversations With Artists - Dan Lam
Channel: ArtResin
Date: 2017-11-15

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In our new series, Conversation With Artists, ArtResin’s co-founder Rebecca Zak provides an opportunity to hear from different contemporary resin artists as they discuss their work, inspiration and the artistic process.

In today’s episode, Rebecca is in conversation with Dallas based foam sculpture artist, Dan Lam!

Dan’s weird yet wonderful blob and drip sculptures are both a visual and a tactile feast - eye candy with such a strong sensory allure that you just want to run your hands over them.  

Dan describes her work as both beautiful and gross and it's this tension, this space between beauty and ugliness, where Dan absolutely shines. This idea of tension and co-existing contrast is a theme that Dan explores in her work from start to finish.  Not only does she create her art by using raw materials in a different way than they were originally intended, but her finished work creates a tension as well … people are so engaged with her sculptures that they long to reach out and touch her work, yet can’t do so in a gallery setting. Dan loves that her work invokes a sense of unfulfilled desire in the viewer.

Rebecca recently spent some time with Dan in her Dallas studio to discuss her work and how critique, discomfort and experimenting with her process all help her to grow and learn as an artist.  

Check out more of Dan's art at: www.bydanlam.com Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/sopopomo


Thanks for watching, and please check out our first two Conversations With Artists episodes, and stay tuned for more episodes to come!

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