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Homecoming, oil on canvas, 64 x 48, 2011
One of Stamer’s earliest interior scenes, Homecoming, is also one of the few in which the human figure prominently appears. As the title suggests, its creation coincided with his return home and enrollment in graduate school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2011. This autobiographical depiction shows the artist in a dream-like space, his Brooklyn studio, which opens to the right onto a sweeping rural meadow with trees in the distance. The exterior landscape is reflected in the painting that hangs before the figure. It is only after we realize the figure is a self-portrait (a rarity for the artist), that we can understand the personal dimension of this work. Voyeuristically peering into this narrative scene, we are given access to a moment of existential contemplation. Homecomings are often moments of reflection in which we reckon with our past and begin to chart a course ahead. Here we can sense the figure’s trepidation as he stands between two worlds.
-Marshall Price, Chief Curator, Nasher Museum of Art
