Renée Stout Exhibition

Marc Straus

poster for Renée Stout Exhibition

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MARC STRAUS presents our first solo exhibition with Washington D.C. based artist Renée Stout (b. 1958). The exhibition is a survey of paintings and sculptures from recent years.

Stout’s inspirations are deeply rooted in her research of Hoodoo, Vodou, Santeria, and other African-based belief systems that have manifested and spread throughout the African Diaspora over centuries and continue today. Her focus is primarily on the American Southeast and Caribbean, where those belief systems have had some influences from Catholicism and Native American spiritual traditions. She has been drawn to science fiction and all forms of music since her youth.

Stout’s inspirations are deeply rooted in her research of Hoodoo, Vodou, Santeria, and other African-based belief systems that have manifested and spread throughout the African Diaspora over centuries and continue today. Her focus is primarily on the American Southeast and Caribbean, where those belief systems have had some influences from Catholicism and Native American spiritual traditions. She has been drawn to science fiction and all forms of music since her youth.

Stout crosses dimensional planes to illustrate and celebrate the paths humans take to escape difficult moments in our current, often chaotic, and at times a feeling of doomed existence; paths to connect to spirits, beings, and imagined other worlds. Systems of faith that something bigger and beyond everyday perceptions is out there and somehow will steer the ship back to the right path.

Throughout Stout’s work, there is an undercurrent of contemporary political commentary. Her work often touches upon specific events from the last five years, as well as larger, looming global issues such as climate change and immigration policy.

Stout was born in Junction City, Kansas, and grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Her work is in the permanent collections of The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The High Museum in Atlanta, The Hirshhorn, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Louis Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and many more.

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from September 10, 2021 to October 15, 2021

Artist(s)

Renée Stout

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