Olga Lamm is a New York City–based artist whose practice centers on perception, identity, and the relationship between inner experience and the world we inhabit. Working with photography, digital collage, language, animation, print, lightboxes, installation, and large-scale projection, her work moves fluidly across media and substrates while remaining anchored in a sustained line of inquiry. These works form self-contained worlds while staying connected to a larger, evolving body of work shaped by return, shift, and continuity.

 

Light is central to Lamm’s work as both material and signal. Through scale, tempo, chromatic contrast, and spatial relation, light functions as the medium through which visual experience is articulated. Across early projects, light-based structures, and digitally mediated projections, images emerge as environments for encounter, registering through attention, movement, and time.

 

Lamm’s process often begins with images drawn from travel and lived experience, functioning as her own ready-made material. Grounded in personal and collective histories, they remain open to reconfiguration. Visual elements—landscapes, figures, architectural forms, symbols—move between works, sometimes returning in new contexts, accumulating meaning via recontextualization and dialogue with the world.

 

Language operates in parallel, appearing as visual composition, mantra, and spatial presence. Through wordplay, symbolic equations, numeric systems, and anagrammatic and phonetic configurations, language becomes material—guided by cadence, alignment, and sequence. Words and symbols generate meaning in relation.

 

Lamm approaches the world as a shared field in which experience becomes perceptible via arrangement, arising from the ongoing exchange between inner states and external conditions. The term metaArtist, first configured amid her early engagement with metaphor and metaphysics, describes an orientation toward underlying structures that enable experience to be lived through form. This approach informs a long-standing inquiry into the architecture through which experience organizes, stabilizes, and transforms.

 

Over decades, Lamm’s work gathers as a connected field. Each articulation operates as part of a living body of work, revealed through relation and variation. Meaning takes shape in encounter, presence, and return, as the work continues to evolve.