Marko Stout is a complex artist who expresses dark, abstract themes through an atypical arrangement of brightly colored images.
Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that Stout is a doctor of medicine and metaphysics and has a degree in Biology. His pieces incorporate large doses of anatomy into a nightmarish world that is full of symbols and layers of meaning.
Stout retired from medicine in 2006 and has been pursuing artistic endeavors full-time ever since. He lived for a time on a houseboat in San Francisco and now calls New York City home. But a seemingly idyllic lifestyle belies a teeming imagination and darkly creative view.
“Post Expressionist” in the “academic visionary movement” is how Stout describes himself on his website markostout.com. Stout, it says, “provides the viewer with a spiritual experience through the brilliant twisting of human anatomy with psychological and mythical archetypes.”
His current project “The Cave” is expected to open in Manhattan in the fall of 2011.