Katie Stout

Is anyone keeping track of which feminist wave we’re in? Fourth or fifth at least. Perhaps we’ve lost count. But one thing is for sure: Katie Stout is surfing it like a pro. To see where gender politics is nowadays, you can do no better than her darkly funny, vibrantly energetic works, which somehow manage to project both faux naivete and worldly wisdom. Like Misha Kahn, with whom she is close—they both attended the Rhode Island School of Design and have shared studio space—she often works with the detritus of pop culture, embracing it with ironic verve (last year she made the triumphal Arc de Trash).