LA artist Lauren Satlowski’s realist painting finds the point at which banality turns into something unsettling. New work at Timothy Taylor Gallery in Tribeca features cartoon characters in office mishaps, coffee mugs placed before strange, visceral forms and everywhere, spilled coffee. In this five-foot tall piece, ‘Skiing on Acid,’ Satlowski juxtaposes two skiers – one on a ceramic coffee mug labeled ‘purgatory’ and the other on a teeth-bitten Styrofoam cup dunked in a glass of water. Symbolic of escape yet conveying confinement, the setup seems to sabotage the mental exit strategy of a trapped worker. (On view in Tribeca through Dec 13th).
