Suzan Frecon: paper
Text by Sarah Eckhardt
Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this beautifully designed publication features works on paper created over the past decade by Suzan Frecon. Large-scale reproductions and gatefold pages reveal the extraordinary details: watercolors are on agate-burnished old Indian ledger paper, found or salvaged old Indian paper, agate-burnished double-weight Indian jute paper, Chinese Yumei, Japanese handmade paper, Fabriano hot press paper, and Arches hot press paper.
Also included are excerpted texts by Sarah Eckhardt from her 2008 essay “Portio Minor: Suzan Frecon’s Watercolors,” reproductions of books from the artist’s library, and intimate photographs of the artist’s studio.
Publisher: David Zwirner / Lawrence Markey / Radius Books
Artists: Suzan Frecon
Designer: David Chickey, Skolkin/Chickey
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in (24.8 x 28.6 cm)
Pages: 144
Reproductions: 68 color
ISBN: 9781934435618
Retail: $60 | £40 | $470 HKD
Status: Not Available
Suzan Frecon
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.