Sharon Butler blogs about the exhibitions 4 Who Paint: Lauren Collings, Barbara Friedman, Gili Levy, Shelley Marlow and paintings by Patricia Satterlee at Valentine Gallery, Ridgewood, Queens, New York, on view through October 14, 2012.

Butler writes: "the paintings look good, bouncing ideas off each other and reveling in their sheer painterliness. In the smaller front gallery, Patricia Satterlee presents a suite of charming small paintings comprising iconic green shapes that seem almost prehistoric, like old pottery shards or agroglyphs seen from above."