Suzan Frecon

ISBN 10: 1934435295 / ISBN 13: 9781934435298

Published by Radius Books, 2010

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Title:
Suzan Frecon: Paintings 2006-2010 ? David Zwirner (Limited 1500 copies)

Description:

Santa Fe: Radius Books / David Zwirner, 2010. First edition hardback, first printing limited to 1500 copies, slim 4to (25 x 20 cm), 48 pp., brown paper boards with gilt lettering, 22 full-color plates. Catalogue for Frecon's September-October 2010 exhibition featuring cathedral-series diptychs and single-panel oils?tea-stained grounds, viscous arcs, deer-skin stretchers?with essay on her light-transmitting facture.

Condition:

Very good. Clean solid copy with minimal shelfwear to boards; no dust jacket (as issued); interior pristine with vivid plates, binding tight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suzan Frecon
• Publisher: Radius Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934435295
• ISBN 13: 9781934435298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 1.14W x 24.49H x 32.26D centimeters 1.14 centimeters width by 24.49 centimeters height by 32.26 centimeters depth
• Weight: 726 grams

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Synopsis

American abstract painter Suzan Frecon (born 1941) is known for her monumental and balanced nonrepresentational works, in which geometric proportion and a keen attention to color yield deeply satisfying compositions. In 2007’s “Embodiment of Red, Version 1,” for example, two curved forms hug the horizons of the canvas’s bottom and equator, describing four regions in various vibrant oxide tones. “I always craved geometric solutions,” she has said. “They underlie so many things: architecture and old paintings that are informed by geometry, like Cimabue, Romanesque cathedrals, churches. You have the structure of the building and then you have the curves of the architecture and then within that you have the painting and within that you have the art.” In recent years, Frecon has had a major solo exhibition at the Menil Collection in Houston and work included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. This volume presents her most recent oil paintings.

About the Author

Suzan Frecon was born in Mexico, Pennsylvania. Following a degree in Fine Arts at Pennsylvania State University in 1963, she spent three years at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. In 2008, Frecon s work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting, which traveled to the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. She was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and her works are represented in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Frecon lives and works in New York.