Bradley Wood’s paintings express ambivalence about the current human condition. While the settings in which Wood situates his languid, idiosyncratic figures suggest comfort and privilege, the skewed perspectives from which we view them imply that everything may not be as it appears on his lushly painted surfaces. Wood creates a parallel in how he applies the thickness of the oil paint and looseness of the brush strokes to convey abundance and opulence. There is a subtle social critique in Wood’s combination of subject matter and style as figures and interiors seem ready to slip off the canvas. Luscious oils combine with ironic narratives to create a world that both attracts and repulses. Eccentric figures lounge languidly amidst highly decorative surroundings, all rendered with a painterliness that hovers between form and disintegration, and works to intrigue and unsettle as much as it does to delight.