[3] He graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelors of Fine Art,[3] and moved to Soho in downtown Manhattan.

He called this body of work his "Cancel" series, because it was derived from a rigorous and reductive process of applying black paint in a grid-like pattern to cover up and obfuscate colorful underpaintings.

[8][9] Stamm's explorations with non-traditional canvas shapes and structures reached an apex from 1974 to 1978 with a group of paintings he called his "Wooster" series.

[11] Critic Robert C. Morgan notes the conceptual novelty of these paintings, which sets them apart from other minimalist and hard edge abstractions: "Given the analytical orientation of the times, many assumed it was based on some complex mathematical derivation; but, in fact, it was quite the opposite.

Stamm, being a man of the streets, with bicycle in tow, discovered this abbreviated form one day on the sidewalk near his loft.

[3][13] The long diagonal shaped canvases in the "Concorde" series reference the nose cone of a supersonic airliner.

[1] Stamm's interest in fast-moving modern vehicles was inspired by his academic study of industrial design in college.