Hand-drawn litho crayon, India Ink, and Stabilo stencil layers; Permaset Aqua Fabric ink on Arches 88, 27 in x 21 in
Edition of 15, produced with Print Fellow Keely Snook

Previous Wassaic Project artist-in-residence and exhibition artist Michael Stamm’s paintings blend emotive personal experience with witty societal critique. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, and The Village Voice. 

Critic, Artist, and Curator Eric Sutphin writes, “Stamm sublimates the libidinal drive in more cerebral activity, coding quotidian objects with queer history and imbuing them with the status of archetype.” (Art in America)

"Stamm is a painter of exceptional skill and finesse who has the preternatural ability to synthesize the lessons of Alex Katz, George Tooker, Domenico Gnoli, and two Walters—Sickert and Gay—into exquisitely wrought pictures that feel simultaneously out of time and of the moment." — Alex Jovanovich, Artforum