Ted Stamm

From Artist’s Website

Ted Stamm (1944 – 1984), one of the most multidisciplinary conceptual and dedicated artists working in SoHo in downtown Manhattan in the 1970’s and early 80’s. In his studio Stamm developed and researched focused series of paintings, works on papers and studies that he titled, Woosters, Dodgers, Zephyr, Chance, Cancel and Tags. Stamm’s practice extended beyond his studio, to areas including mail art, artists books, photography, site-specific installations and street art documentation titled Designators. Many of Stamm’s inspirations derive from observing everyday objects, experiences and events, such as finding an abstract shape on the street or lines on a baseball field. Stamm’s work are fully abstract, and it is unnecessary for the viewer to know the origins of what he or she is looking at in order to experience them the way the artist intended. Black is a consistent component of Stamm’s work, a color that he associated with rebellion, rigor and reduction. Stamm created a rich oeuvre in his short lifetime which became influential for artists coming of age in New York over the past thirty years.

During his lifetime, Stamm exhibited his work internationally in museums and galleries. Including in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at venues, such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA P.S.1, The Clocktower (all New York City), Museum of Contemporary Art, MoCA (Los Angeles, CA), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Rose Art Museum (Waltham, MA), Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH), Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (Fort Lauderdale, FL), Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK), Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA), Grand Rapids Art Museum (Grand Rapids, MI), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL), Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO), Akademie Der Kunste (Berlin, Germany) and Louisiana Museum (Humlebæk, Denmark).

In 1977, curator Manfred Schneckenburger included Stamm’s work in Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany. His work has been exhibited alongside artists during his lifetime with artists, such as Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Lynda Benglis, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Mary Corse, Walter De Maria, Sylvie Fleury, Sam Francis, Mary Heilmann, Eva Hesse, Howard Hodgkin, Jacqueline Humphries, Neil Jenney, Donald Judd, Imi Knoebel, Sol Lewitt, Alvin D. Loving, Brice Marden, Gordon Matta-Clark, John McLaughlin, Robert Morris, Olivier Mosset, Isamu Noguchi, Blinky Palermo, Steven Parrino, Howardena Pindell, David Reed, Gerrit Rietveld, Dorothea Rockburne, Susan Rothenberg, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Sean Scully, Richard Serra, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Terry Winters and Stanley Whitney. In addition, Stamm exhibited his work at the legendary Downtown artist-founded venues 112 Greene Street (1975), Artists Space (1975, 1980, 1983) and Franklin Furnace (1977, 1980).

Stamm received awards in Painting from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1983) and the National Endowments for the Arts, NEA (1981–1982).

Stamm’s work is in a number of public collections. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France), Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), Hall Art Collection (Derneburg, Germany; Reading, Vermont), Museum of, Contemporary Art MoCA (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Modern Art MoMA (New York, NY), San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, California) and Western Australia Art Gallery (Perth, Australia).