Timothy Taylor is now representing American artist Lauren Satlowski. The gallery plans to host a solo exhibition for her at its New York location in October 2025.
Satlowski has gained recognition for her captivating photorealistic paintings that depict uncanny still lifes and object studies. She draws from diverse visual inspirations, including Catholic iconography, Dutch still life, Rococo ornamentation, body horror, and commercial photography, often utilizing collections of found objects. These items—both organic and man-made—are collected during her travels or daily life. Her works showcase intricate arrangements of flowers, spiders, dolls, perfume bottles, and plastic trinkets, rendered in exquisite detail, evoking personal and collective memories.
Born in Detroit in 1984, Satlowski earned her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2013. While studying at Cranbrook, she created pieces influenced by her Catholic upbringing, focusing on themes of body horror and transformation. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
The process of collecting is vital to Satlowski’s artistic journey. As a child in suburban Detroit, she was fascinated by the figurines displayed behind glass in her grandmother’s cabinets. Her father, an electrician and motorcycle enthusiast, collected mechanical parts and firearms, while her mother, a prosthodontist, meticulously hand-paints porcelain veneers in various shades of white.
“I feel very intimately towards my paintings in my practice,” she shared with W Magazine last year. “There’s a lot of closeness there, and the way that people connect with them once they leave the studio, they become personal.”
Satlowski has held solo exhibitions at Micki Meng in Paris and Bel Ami in Los Angeles, among other venues. Her artwork is included in esteemed collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the X Museum in Beijing.
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