Carlye Packer is pleased to present Begging For Attention, an exhibition of new poodle works by artist Adam Stamp, which will take place across multiple venues in Aspen, CO concurrent with the Aspen Museum’s Art Week. The works will be on display July 28 - August 4, 2024.

A few years back, Stamp started making drawings of poodles. Originally drawn to them conceptually because of their relationship to Faustian stories, where Mephistopheles often appears to Faust either as or with a poodle. Like the seminal queer art collective, General Idea, the poodle for Stamp represents something both cute and subversive. He also sees the fur and form of the poodle as a way to exercise (or exorcise) the abstract impulse, loosely painted forms are defined by doodles.

After working in this format for a while, the poodle has now become a vehicle for exploring class - each poodle character occupying a point of privilege or aspiration. For this new presentation of poodle works in Aspen, there will be a work in the Aspen Art Museum’s Art Crush auction, along with a hallway display in the new Aspen Art Fair at Hotel Jerome. Because of Stamp’s long and strong relationship with the Aspen Art Museum and the town of Aspen, a number of other venues across town will also host poodle works during the course of art week 2024.

Can you find them all?

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Adam Stamp (b. 1985, Pittsburgh, PA) is an Aries Sun, Pisces Moon, Capricorn Rising. He is currently based between Los Angeles and London. Stamp's work fluctuates between the comedic and the disastrous - a reflection on loneliness and coping mechanisms in our contemporary moment. Stamp's multi-media practice is deeply personal, exploring ideas of use/abuse, the intersection of queerness with toxic masculinity, failure, aspiration, and falling. Through sculpture, drawing, texts, and curation, Stamp aims to make work that is moving, moody, humorous, and accessible, with an emphasis on and awareness of being social.

His work was recently on display at the Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO. Stamp has exhibited at Carlye Packer, Los Angeles, CA; Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Real Pain, Los Angeles, CA; Lomex, New York, NY; Indipendenza, Rome, IT; O-Town House, Los Angeles, CA; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Los Angeles, CA. Stamp’s work has been featured in publications such as L’Officiel, Flaunt, MOUSSE, Modern Luxury, Flash Art, Artforum, Curate LA, and Modern Luxury.