"Artist Katie Stout is known for collapsing the boundary between design and derangement. Her playful household items—lamps, chairs, mirrors, curtains—double as avant-garde sculpture; she’s described her work as “naive pop.” Case in point: one of her most well-known early works is a side table that resembles cow udders squirting milk. In her latest solo show, Verdant Malformations—which was on view last month at Venus Over Manhattan—she kicks up the unsettling side of her aesthetic even further, with seething, figurative, sculpted lamps and other objects rendered in glass, ceramic, and bronze. They evoke rotting vegetation, but also, regeneration. The fashion designer Adam Selman, a longtime fan of the artist, gave her a call to discuss food, their respective artistic practices, and embracing one’s naughty side. Moo."
