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DEFINITION plays off the three artists' sincere, yet conceptual approaches to object-making. The show emphasizes the objecthood of their work and source inspiration while drawing attention to materiality, hand-labor, and surface.

Ted Stamm (1944 – 1984) was a multi-faceted conceptual artist working in SoHo in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s. Many of his inspirations derive from observing everyday objects, experiences, and events, such as finding an abstract shape on the street (Wooster) or lines on a baseball field (Dodgers). While the drawings are entirely abstract and radically …