{"id":2825,"date":"2014-01-24T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/posturemag.com\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2014-02-05T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:22:45","slug":"artist-spotlight-dirk-stamm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/posturemag.com\/online\/artist-spotlight-dirk-stamm\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Spotlight: Dirk Stamm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author | Annie Malamet<\/p>\n

Dirk Stamm has already produced a large and varied body of work at the age of twenty-five. A Boston native currently living in Portland, Maine, Dirk works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics. Dirk fits the bill completely of a traditional studio artist, working in various \u201chands on\u201d mediums.<\/p>\n

Dealing with issues of survival and the physicality of the human body, Dirk creates chaotic, graphic images. These draw heavily on various biological forms and cellular structures. Chromosomes, petri dishes, diagrams of body parts, and dissections are just some of the recurring imagery in his oeuvre. \u201cMost of my work comes from my own struggles I had during high school and still have with my sexuality and gender identity,\u201d says Dirk. \u201cBeing put into a queer group home in high school and learning about biology gave me a set of frameworks and rules to try and figure out a bunch of my issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

In short, Dirk\u2019s work is a hashing out of those personal issues by representing the human body in various ways through different mediums and imageries. Playing with physical materials and in such an obsessive manner is crucial to Dirk\u2019s working method. \u201cI’m a very hands-on, need to \u2018talk it out\u2019 type of person. If I have an issue my head spins until I get to \u2018talk\u2019 out all of my thoughts and look at the issue from every possible angle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dirk\u2019s work has a freeform, graphic, geometric quality akin to graffiti or even tattoo art. \u201cRight now I’m really taken with Watson Atkinson\u2019s and Tai-Van’s drawings and tattoos.\u201d It would be no surprise to see Dirk\u2019s prints on a t-shirt or as a chest tattoo, but that by no means makes his work shallow or purely aesthetic. It is that relationship between beauty, horror, science, and graphic art that make his pieces so accessible and intriguing.<\/p>\n

Dirk currently has a piece in the Free 4 All exhibit in Portland, Maine. To see more of his work, visit cargocollective.com\/tdstammart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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