Anna Conway’s surreal landscapes and tense interior scenes often feature working men whose importance is questionable. Here, in an oil painting from 2004 featured in her current solo show at Fergus McCaffrey Gallery in Chelsea, four men in uniform lie flat on sandy soil to reach into a man-made pool. Their tiny figures, echoed in the forms of spindly trees above them, appear ill-equipped to correct whatever problem lurks below. Titled ‘Pound of Cure,’ the piece presents the unpleasant consequences of someone’s lack of foresight. (On view through Dec 23rd).
