Biography
Christopher Stout is a Queer abstract reductivist artist whose work merges the vocabularies of both sculpture and painting. His work builds monuments to the notions of radical joy and a vision of Queerness as found in our imaginations. Stout’s art has been shown extensively in gallery, museum, and fair projects with eighteen gallery solos (6 in New York). Stout also founded and directed the Bushwick-based, “Art During the Occupation Gallery” (2015–2018) with a program exploring subversive and difficult art and serving as a platform for discourse on work that remains as challenging to authority paradigms, feminist, queer, anti-establishment, hyper-aggressive, mystic, and/or joyously sexual. Stout also founded and ran the Bushwick Art Crit Group, the much-loved artist lecture and exhibition series (2013-2015). Christopher Stout is currently working on a spring 2021 solo at Lichtundire in the Lower East Side, his fourth at the gallery, titled “Wonderment of Otherness.” He lives and works in New York.
Works
Exhibitions
Gay Guerrilla, 2020
Press
Queer Abstraction in 2019, Alexandria Deters, Art 511, 2019
“Collective Palimpsests” at Lichtundfire, Jonathan Goodman, Tussle, 2019
Collective Palimpsests: Traces of Infinite Consciousness, Carol Diamond, 2019
“Minimal Impact” at Lichtundfire, Jonathan Goodman, Whitehot Magazine, 2018
Noah Becker in conversation with Christopher Stout on his Sonic Opera, Arcade Project, 2018