Sokolow's work uses both image and text to conjure connections among historical events, celebrities, politicians, and her own personal history in order to spur new consideration of alternate possible realities.
Her large-scale installations, works on paper and panel, and artist books feature a nameless, paranoid narrator who uncovers sinister plots.
Her work has covered many topics, including prominent or powerful men such as illusionist David Copperfield,[13] drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes,[14] Vladimir Putin,[15] Frank Lloyd Wright,[16] artist Willem De Kooning,[17] and cult leader Jim Jones.
[18] She has used personal history as the starting point of compositions, as in the 2010 artist book, “Briefcase Exchange, Men’s Bathroom, McDonalds, Washington, D.C., 1986.”[19] Sokolow populated a large 2010 piece called, “You tell people you're working really hard on things these days” with an imagined set of characters based on the real-life occupants of Sokolow's studio as well as the sculptor Richard Serra.
[20] Richard Serra had also appeared in a 2009 piece entitled, “Dear Trusted Associate,” in which Sokolow portrays a paranoid alternate reality in which the noted sculptor engages in criminal activity.
Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Artforum.com, Art in Print, and she is included in VITAMIN D2, a hardcover survey of contemporary drawing practices published by Phaidon.