Bel Ami Los Angeles

Bel Ami presents new still life paintings by Lauren Satlowski at Liste Art Fair Basel 2026. Limned by enigmatic shadows and shot through with refracting streams of light, the artist’s latest works cast dime-store figurines and curios in elegiac tableaux. Her arrangements have the trappings of a theater or film set, where spotlights, scenery, and characters evoke action and elicit identification. Precarious and transitory elements such as burning wicks and oblique rays of sunshine imply an obscure chain of causes and effects — a narrative just beyond the threshold of recognition, flickering in the gloaming. Through her devotion to illumination, juxtaposition, and staging, Satlowski’s relics transcend their tabletop origins and are transposed to a mythic plane, recalling the durable allegories of classical friezes, the potent animism of Gothic ornaments, or the perspective of Carroll’s inquisitive Alice, undaunted and enraptured by wonderland.

Lauren Satlowski (b. 1984, Detroit, MI) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Timothy Taylor (2025); Micki Meng (2024); Office Baroque (2023); Bel Ami (2020); DM Office (2019); ODD ARK (2018); and Wasserman Projects (2014). Her work is in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mohn Art Collective (MAC3), Los Angeles; and X Museum, Beijing.