Natalie Featherston’s artwork looks exactly like what it is: a child’s drawing of dinosaurs at a tea party, a one-panel pop-art comic of a distraught woman, and a nest of turquoise-blue robins’ eggs. The objects appear so lifelike, so three-dimensional, that people sometimes try to grab them — and then they get the joke. They’re two-dimensional paintings with nothing to touch but the surface of the canvas. Featherston is a trompe l’oeil painter, which is French for “to deceive the eye.” She combines the genre’s inherent humor with her own brand of whimsy. Her solo show, Faux Sho: Trompe L’oeil Double Visions, opens at Meyer Gallery on Friday, Oct. 22. On the cover is Featherston’s When Disaster Strikes — The

Art World Edition: They Did Not Match (2021), oil.