Frieze New York: Suzan Frecon

May 17—21, 2023

The Shed

545 West 30th Street, New York

Booth B13

David Zwirner is pleased to present a focused solo presentation of new and recent oil paintings by American artist Suzan Frecon at this year’s edition of Frieze New York.

Frecon is known for abstract oil paintings and works on paper that, as she notes, ‘speak for themselves.’ Made over long stretches of time, her work invites the viewer’s sustained attention: these, she says, ‘are not pictures that you look at. They are paintings that you experience.’ On view will be five large scale works that together elaborate on Frecon’s enduring investigation of painting.

Suzan Frecon

earths and plum, 2023

Oil on linen

Overall: 108 x 87 1/2 inches (274.3 x 222.3 cm)
Panel, each: 54 x 87 1/2 inches (137.2 x 222.3 cm)

Suzan Frecon

untitled (m.b.v. haematite), 2022

Oil on linen

Overall: 87 1/2 x 108 inches (222.3 x 274.3 cm)
Panel, each: 87 1/2 x 54 inches (222.3 x 137.2 cm)

Suzan Frecon

arco della tentazione (red earths), 2023

Oil on linen

Overall: 87 1/2 x 108 inches (222.3 x 274.3 cm)
Panel, each: 87 1/2 x 54 inches (222.3 x 137.2 cm)

Suzan Frecon

orange b, k, 2018

Watercolor on agate-burnished old Indian ledger paper

5 1/4 x 26 7/8 inches (13.3 x 68.3 cm)
Framed: 11 3/8 x 32 3/4 inches (28.9 x 83.2 cm)

Suzan Frecon

colors (resolution), 2022

Watercolor on paper

19 x 14 1/4 inches (48.3 x 36.2 cm)
Framed: 25 1/8 x 20 3/8 inches (63.8 x 51.8 cm)

Suzan Frecon

blue, green, red, orange and purple composition, 2023

Watercolor on double weight Indian jute paper

18 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (47.6 x 34.6 cm)
Framed: 24 7/8 x 20 1/8 inches (63.2 x 51.1 cm)

Suzan Frecon

buoninsegna, 2022

Oil on linen

Overall: 108 1/4 x 87 1/2 inches (275 x 222.3 cm)
Panel, each: 54 1/8 x 87 1/2 inches (137.5 x 222.3 cm)

Photo by Suzan Frecon, 2023

“I paint with the sun and its paths and seasons. This light becomes a part of my paintings.”

—Suzan Frecon

Suzan Frecon

indigo over orange, broken paper, 2022

Watercolor on found old Indian rag paper

13 x 17 inches (33 x 43.2 cm)
Framed: 19 1/8 x 23 1/4 inches (48.6 x 59.1 cm)

Suzan Frecon

in multi colors, 2022

Watercolor on Japanese paper

14 5/8 x 13 inches (37.1 x 33 cm)
Framed: 20 3/4 x 19 1/8 inches (52.7 x 48.6 cm)

Suzan Frecon

mars indigo, 2019

Oil on linen

Overall: 87 3/8 x 108 1/2 inches (221.9 x 275.6 cm)
Panel, each: 87 3/8 x 54 1/4 inches (221.9 x 137.8 cm)

“[Frecon’s colors] have been expertly harmonized within a composition of assonance and irregularity. As so often in Frecon’s art, the various visual features seem perfectly balanced yet still in process of falling into a proper order. Her order has a not-quite quality, a lure to continued looking.”

—Richard Shiff in Suzan Frecon: Painting

Suzan Frecon

little buoninsegna, 2023

Oil on linen on aluminum panel

29 5/8 x 24 inches (75.3 x 61 cm)

Suzan Frecon

untitled (m.b.v. haematite) 2, 2023

Oil on linen

24 x 29 5/8 inches (61 x 75.3 cm)

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