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"Marko Stout Challenging the Viewer's Gaze"

Marko Stout is a multimedia artist and film director based in New York city, known for his fierce depictions of the contemporary urban female. In his newest series, "Chelsea Girls" the women are alienated from their abstracted city backgrounds, seemingly unaware of the industrial grit and fast-paced energy of their surroundings.

Marko's graffiti-eqsue imagery and raw use of color capture the spirit and dynamism of city life with a fervor that is almost aggressive in its approach. Marko offers a window into the essence of city life, while blending in a burst of female vigor. As we are plunged into this obscure scene, we become lost in the electric colors and dynamic brushstrokes, which ignite against the women's organic sensuality. The resulting impact is a stunning contemporary spectacle.

Marko Stout innovatively subverts mainstream conceptions of female sexuality and boldy confronts gender stereotypes in art. Marko abandons the cliché of idealizing beauties as serene and attainable in accordance with male-dominated fantasies. His work opposes this convention by depicting young females as fierce and independent within their contemporary urban contexts. Marko's fresh-faced girls reveal a strong, unwavering presence, while appearing oppositional to the spectator's gaze- with their confrontational stare and unwelcoming body language, they all undermine the observer and remain in control of their sexuality.

By confronting the spectator so poignantly, Marko is able to undermine dominant notions about sexuality. As he depict the females with a unparalleled sensitivity to their nature, he unveils an obscure mysticism in each woman. Ultimately, these women remind us that despite the intrinsic softness of their youth, they will not be overpowered by the onlooker.

Marko Stout was born in South Africa, relocated to the States as a child and later received his university degree from Princeton. He studied medicine in New York City, earning his degree in 1990. Marko relocated to California and developed his passion for art while living aboard a houseboat in the bohemian San Francisco community of Sausalito. Upon his return to New York City Marko Stout rapidly established himself as a part of New York City’s emerging Chelsea art scene, drawing inspiration from local street artists, the city's many galleries and modern art museums.

Marko Stout's works can be viewed at numerous international exhibitions, galleries of fine art, film exhibitions and private collections. Marko Stout solo galleries are located in New York City, Berlin, Miami and Paris (2015)

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