Suzan Frecon: Drawing painting

The Drawing Center's Drawing Painting was the first U.S. solo exhibition of drawings by artist Suzan Frecon (born 1941), organized by Catherine de Zegher, Executive Director of The Drawing Center. The exhibition included approximately fifty watercolors from the 1990s: a comprehensive view of Frecon's outstanding contribution to the field of drawing. Over the course of her practice, the artist has focused on reaching a higher and more pure form of abstraction in her art.

Frecon considers her work to have four fundamental ingredients: form, color, material, and 'art.' From the start, she was inclined to investigate the complexities of form in painting and drawing, and has devoted her attention to the creation of works whose expansiveness transcends their own borders, even though they seem to respond to an underlying rational order.