Olga Lamm is a New York City–based artist whose practice unfolds as a sustained inquiry into perception, identity, and the relationship between inner experience and the world we inhabit. Working across photo-based works, digital collage, language, animation, print, lightboxes, installation, and large-scale projection, her work moves fluidly between formats while remaining rooted in a continuous line of investigation. Each work forms a self-contained world—open enough to be entered intuitively and experienced through presence rather than instruction.

 

Light is central to Lamm’s practice as a carrier of information—holding temperature, rhythm, memory, and time. From early photo-based works and light-based structures to digitally mediated landscapes and projections, light operates as both material and signal. Images take shape through chromatic contrast, scale, and spatial relationships, allowing form to emerge through vibration, duration, and encounter. Perception becomes an active process, assembled through movement and attention.

 

Lamm’s work often begins with photographic images she creates through travel and lived experience, which function as her own ready-made material—elements grounded in the real while opening toward transformation. Landscapes, figures, and symbols shift into dreamlike terrains where architecture, nature, and persona coexist within a shared field. Across series, these environments operate as mirrors of internal states, inviting recognition through resonance rather than explanation.

 

Language plays a parallel role in the work, appearing as visual structure, mantra, and spatial presence. Through wordplay, symbolic equations, numeric systems, and anagrammatic and phonetic configurations, language becomes a material shaped by rhythm, alignment, and meaning-in-motion. Words and symbols are treated as forms in space, carrying thought through
arrangement and relation.

 

Lamm identifies as a metaArtist—a term that emerged from her early engagement with metaPhor and metaPhysics. Here, “meta” signals a way of working across layers of meaning, where material and immaterial, visible and felt, remain in continuous dialogue. This approach underlies her long-standing exploration of impermanence, balance, and transformation.

 

When the work appears in public space, the context shifts while the impulse remains the same. Buildings, trees, and streets become active surfaces where inner images meet shared reality, shaped by time, weather, movement, and chance encounter. Each appearance unfolds as a specific event—situational, responsive, and temporary—allowing the work to exist as image, environment, and lived experience at once.

 

Across decades of work, Lamm’s practice is guided by attentiveness over time, allowing ideas to unfold across media and through lived engagement. Her work opens space for recognition—where perception softens, boundaries loosen, and new ways of seeing quietly come into view.