Damian Stamer
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BIO
Damian Stamer received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Jacob K. Javits fellow in 2013 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Herberger Institute of Art and Design and Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University as a National Merit Scholar in 2007. He also studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts as a Fulbright grantee, and the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, Germany as a Rotary Ambassadorial scholar. Recent solo exhibitions include Damian Stamer: Ruminations, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (2023); New Sharon Church Rd, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2022); and then it wasn’t, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2021); Returning, Koki Arts in Tokyo, Japan (2019): Unseen, Craven Allen Gallery, Durham, NC (2019); Interiors, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2018); A Stone’s Throw, Gallerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany (2016). Stamer’s work was included in State of the Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Momentary, Bentonville, AR (2020) and Drawn: Concept & Craft, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC (2020). Stamer’s paintings explore themes of memory and impermanence through formal and conceptual approaches. Detailed architectural forms reminiscent of his childhood memories of the South are combined with gestural brushstrokes that push and pull the images into existence. The artist lives and works in Durham, North Carolina.