Olivia Sterling - If It Comforts You, Then Do So #1

In her paintings, Olivia Sterling presents the viewer with scenes of daily life that subtly critique attitudes towards race, class, gender, and social status. While her typically closely cropped and vividly coloured canvases, teeming with arms, legs, and half-eaten food, may seem playful at first sight, they do, in fact, tackle subjects that are anything but.