Abstract
Susan Lichtman: In My House is on view at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York from June 14- July 15, 2017. An artist talk with Susan Lichtman will take place in the gallery Wednesday, July 12, 5:30 pm.
Susan Lichtman’s paintings situate roughly midway along the stylistic spectrum from representation to abstraction continuously mined since the 19th century, despite Cold War polarities, and bring a novel female perspective to Intimist iconography. With Fairfield Porter and David Park she shares formal emphasis, a sense of light informed by Impressionism, and a descriptive shorthand that echoes primitive appropriations by Picasso and Matisse. But Lichtman’s work shows a denser cubist fragmentation of experience that explores personal subject with judicious reservation.