Abstract
The article features U.S. painter Susan Lichtman and her paintings. According to Lichtman, some of her paintings merely depict a particular moment in a family's day, when everyone is doing something different in very close proximity to one another. For all the dramatic light in her work, Lichtman's paintings are unified by a carefully controlled palette. Rather than plan out her compositions, Lichtman allows them to evolve through a kind of discovery process.