For the past four decades, Suzan Frecon has become known for abstract oil paintings and watercolors that are at once reductive and expressive. Composed with subtle, interacting arrangements of color, which the artist applies with meticulous attention to the physical qualities of her medium, they appear to blur the distinction between matter and transcendence. Color assumes a physical property and almost appears material; as the artist has stated, “The reality and the spiritual of my paintings are the same.” Frecon was born in 1941 in Mexico, Pennsylvania. Following a degree in fine arts from the Pennsylvania State University in 1963, she spent three years at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since 2008, her work has been represented by David Zwirner, where her first gallery solo show was in 2010. Consisting of over forty watercolors from the past decade, Suzan Frecon: paper marked her second solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which was on view February to March 2013. The show was accompanied by a fully illustrated artist book published by David Zwirner and Radius Books with Lawrence Markey, where a concurrent presentation of watercolors was exhibitedin San Antonio, Texas. Frecon has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally. In 2008, her work was the subject of a major solo exhibition, form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting, at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, which traveled to the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland. She has participated in a number of recent group exhibitions, including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California (2011 and 2009); Boston University Art Gallery (2010); and the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Works by the artist are represented in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; undefined

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