Timothy Taylor is now representing American artist Lauren Satlowski. The gallery will mount a solo exhibition for the artist at its New York space in October 2025.
Satlowski has earned attention for her seductive photorealistic paintings that feature uncanny still lifes and object studies. Drawing from a range of visual references including Catholic iconography, Dutch still life, Rococo ornamentation, body horror, and commercial photography, she often works from collections of found objects. These items—organic and man-made—are gathered during her travels or daily life. Her paintings feature ambiguous arrangements of flowers, spiders, dolls, perfume bottles, and plastic trinkets, rendered in high detail with compositions that evoke both personal and collective memory.
Born in Detroit in 1984, Satlowski received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2013. While at Cranbrook, she made work responding to her Catholic upbringing with paintings that focused on body horror and corporal transformation. She is currently based in Los Angeles.
The act of collecting remains central to Satlowski’s process. As a child in suburban Detroit, she was drawn to the figurines locked behind glass in her grandmother’s cabinets. Her father, an electrician who rode motorcycles, collected mechanical parts and guns, while her mother, a prosthodontist, hand-paints porcelain veneers in hundreds of shades of white.
“I feel very intimately towards my paintings in my practice,” she told 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 had solo shows with Micki Meng in Paris and Bel Ami in Los Angeles, among other galleries. Her work is held in prestigious collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA Miami, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the X Museum in Beijing.
