Abstract
Figures in a scene can welcome us in or turn us into voyeurs. Susan Lichtman’s paintings of people going about their day, familiar scenes and casual interactions, feel like our own views. Do the subjects know they are posing? In Colin Page’s painting, the girls can be seen as an allegory for our place in nature, dappled light camouflaging the figures into their surroundings. It can conjure our own memories of childhood. Or it can be about the artist’s view, fatherhood in rural Maine, two sisters playing side by side.