Dan Lam Slick, 2025

Dan Lam’s Slick, 2025, exemplifies the artist’s signature exploration of texture, form, and fluidity through a balance of allure and unease. The sculpture, resembling a skull melting into an elongated drip, is rendered in deep black, giving it both a glossy sensuality and a haunting weight. Lam’s use of viscous, dripping forms evokes movement and transformation, challenging the viewer’s perception of stability and decay. Slick sits at the intersection of the organic and the synthetic—simultaneously seductive and unsettling—inviting reflection on materiality, mortality, and the ways in which beauty can emerge from distortion.