CVA Lecture Series: Susan Lichtman, School of Art Faculty

“Painting the Figure and Light”

Susan Lichtman is a figurative painter of domestic spaces, working out of her home studio in southeastern Massachusetts. She graduated from Brown University and received an MFA in Painting from Yale University School of Art. Lichtman has had solo exhibitions at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, (NY, NY); Fahrenheit Gallery (Madrid, Spain); Gross McCleaf Gallery, (Philadelphia, PA); Oresman Gallery at Smith College, (Northampton, MA,) and the Wilson Museum at Hollins University, (Roanoke, VA.) Recent group exhibitions have been at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project and Nathalie Karg Gallery, (NY, NY); Wege Center for the Arts, (Fairfield, IA); Chazen Gallery, (Providence, RI); Page Gallery, (Camden, ME); and Crosstown Arts, (Memphis, TN). A recipient of a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she has also earned awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since the 1980’s Susan Lichtman has been a member of the Studio Art faculty at Brandeis University, where she was appointed Professor and Charles Bloom Chair in the Department of Fine Arts. She has been a visiting artist at universities and art schools throughout the US. She was the Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University, the Guest of Honor at JSS Civita, IT and has taught in summer programs at Yale Norfolk, Pont-Aven School of Art and MassArt New England.