David Zwirner is pleased to present new work by American artist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941) at the gallery's Paris location, marking her ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. This will be the first one-person presentation of Frecon's work in Paris since 1999. On view will be recent canvases that elaborate on the artist's enduring investigation of large-scale oil paintings, as well as richly textured paintings on paper.
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."*
The Light Factory attests to the artist's engagement with the possibilities of her medium, and the exhibition's title gestures to the ways in which light functions as a component of her paintings. Frecon's works are characterized by asymmetrically balanced forms in precise spatial and proportional relationships; for the artist, composition serves as her foundational structure, holding color, material, and light.
* Suzan Frecon, “text and related work”, in Suzan Frecon: oil paintings and sun. Exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2015), p. 63.
