



Laptop with Shoe
2025
Rendered in oil on panel, "Laptop with Shoe" presents two thoroughly mundane objects arranged with the careful attention more commonly reserved for fruit bowls and porcelain. Aubrey Levinthal sets a open laptop against what appears to be a discarded shoe, the kind of incidental still life that forms in any lived-in room without invitation or intention. The square format, measuring just over forty centimetres on each side, concentrates the composition and lends the scene an intimacy that rewards close looking. Levinthal's handling of paint is confident and considered, coaxing warmth and psychological weight from subject matter that most painters would overlook entirely. Levinthal has built a reputation for finding genuine tension in the overlooked corners of contemporary domestic life, and this work sits comfortably within that lineage while feeling entirely fresh. The laptop, a ubiquitous symbol of work, distraction, and connectivity, is placed in quiet proximity to an object associated with the body and with physical movement, and the contrast quietly unsettles any easy reading of either. There is a subtle humor present, though never at the expense of the painting's seriousness. Levinthal resists sentimentality while still allowing the viewer to project a full human presence into the scene through the traces these objects leave behind. Currently offered through Galería Pelaires, this signed work on panel represents a compelling entry point into Levinthal's practice for collectors drawn to contemporary figurative painting that takes everyday life as its subject without condescending to it. The unframed presentation allows the buyer flexibility in how the work is finished and displayed, and the intimate scale makes it well-suited to domestic interiors where its subject matter will feel genuinely at home.
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Galería Pelaires
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