Surrounded by Friends

Katie Stout and her husband, Jeff Kinkle, are in quarantine in their Fort Greene apartment, which feels a bit enchanted.

- By Wendy Goodman

Artist katie stout married Jeff Kinkle, a lawyer, just this past September. They chose as the location the romantic dilapidation of Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways, and the ceremony somehow referenced the film The Warriors, a de Chirico painting, and the “pre-orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut.” Now they’ve settled into a Fort Greene rental that features, most prominently, a wedding gift from Stout’s friend Misha Kahn, with whom she attended the Rhode Island School of Design, that looks like a nest or maybe the creature that lives in a nest. “Well, we’ve been calling it the hamster, the giant hamster,” says Stout, laugh