Mernet Larsen in ‘Dream Machines’ at James Cohan Gallery

Part of ‘Dream Machines,’ an exhibition that ponders how in daily life, ‘the real and imaginary cease to be contradictory,’ Mernet Larsen’s surreal ‘Sunday Drive’ is both plausible and impossible at once. Her orange-toned factory fresh figures are perfect but creepy, giving viewers pause to reconsider the serendipity of an American tradition. (At James Cohan Gallery’s Chelsea location through July 28th).

Mernet Larsen, Sunday Drive, oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches, 1986.