Sharon Butler blogs about the exhibition Four Paintings: Picture Window at Regina Rex, Ridgewood, Queens, on view through August 8, 2013.

Butler writes: "In the second installment of their 'Four Paintings' series, Regina Rex presents four huge figurative paintings, one each from accomplished artists Hannah Barrett, Linda Gallagher, Becky Kinder and Summer Wheat… For the most part, the solitary figures in the paintings resist the viewer's presence, carrying on despite the occasional visitor. It occurs to me that the show, in its determined obliviousness and defiance, could be an apt allegory for the artworld's relationshp to the general public."