This and That: Dan Lam and a Starbucks Tumbler

by Caleb Bell January 23, 2024

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed.

Today: Iridescent drips

A Sculpture of cascading iridescent drips stands in a gallery

Dan Lam, “A Subtle Alchemy,” 2021, metal, styrofoam, epoxy, automotive paint. On view in “Nasher Public: Dan Lam” in 2021. Photo: Kevin Todora

Read Caleb Bell’s conversation with Dan Lam here. Read Matthew Bourbon’s review of A Subtle Alchemy at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas here. Read a review of Lam’s 2016 exhibition at Fort Works Art here.

A violet and blue iridescent tumbler sits on a shelf

A tumbler seen recently at Starbucks

 

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No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also working on that idea. Furthermore, they are using notation very similar to yours. – Bruce J. MacLennan

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