Marko Stout is a popular New York City multimedia artist with a degree in evolutionary biology and a doctorate in medicine. His work is centered on contemporary urban culture and features mostly women.

Is there a specific message you wish to communicate through your art?

Marko Stout: Mostly providing commentary on the rapid changes in the New York society and the overwhelmed urban individual trying to find their place or fit in. My work is designed to really speak to the city dweller. I don’t think people in the countryside would really get it.
I’m not sure if you would say my work belongs to any particular art movement or style, but whatever the style is, it is definitely modern and very 21st century. I enjoy a multimedia format that allows for the work to move and develop over time. It’s not static like older traditional paintings. I don’t think today’s relevant arts should limit their palate to one particular medium.

How does living in New York City influence your art?

Marko Stout: New York City can be a very crazy place. This is true with most urban cultures today, so I think my message resonates to anyone in a large international city. There is so very much information available to be taken in and processed that a good artist must really be a good visual or artistic editor and display only what’s relevant to the work or the emotion you’re trying to elicit from the viewer.
Mostly my work is figurative so I usually present an emotion or universal archetypal feeling and some social commentary to the viewer. And since my environment is usually in New York City or another large international urban area my work is usually most relevant to people making their homes in the city. It may not elicit the same visceral reactions to someone living in a rural area.

What has been your favorite project so far?

Marko Stout: My micro-cinema projects seem to really express what I’m going for. This is sort of a post-new wave genre of art film presented in installments. I try to place emphasis on the elemental origins of a modern urban vision and movement, using an unconventional narrative structure. I think I can really get my point across with these films as part of an exhibition. It’s actually very exciting stuff.

How important is feedback to you?

Marko Stout: I create work that primarily inspires me or that I have a personal interest in, something that I would like to see made and hopefully appeals to the art critics as well.
At the same time, I don’t really care what a critic my say, especially one who just criticizes something they can’t understand. If I produce art that I personally understand, regardless of what others think it, it will still be great art to me.

How does your work fit into the direction of the world today?

Marko Stout: Artworks should hold a mirror to culture and society where they are produced, and my environment is the very urban 21st century New York City. My work is meant to reflect the real New York City — not the artificial plastic Disney version created for the tourists in Times Square. The center of the city is now full of these pretty little sentimental creatures in grey fur coats. I believe that behind these smiling eyes there lurks a cold beast fearfully following us.
But then again, maybe the Disney homogenization of Times Square is the most authentic commentary on our times.

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Marko Stout :: NYC 2012 Show | YouTube

“Dysfunction on 14th Street” MicroCinema by Marko Stout | YouTube

“Trapped in History” by Marko Stout NYC 2011 | YouTube

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