Suzan Frecon: The Light Factory

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 solo presentation of Frecon’s work in Paris since 1999. On view will be new canvases that elaborate on the artist’s enduring investigation of painting, as well as her 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.”¹

Frecon was recently awarded the 2025 Alexej-von-Jawlensky-Preis der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden; her work will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum Wiesbaden in 2027.

^{1 Suzan Frecon, “text and related work,” in Suzan Frecon: oil paintings and sun. Exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner Books, 2015), p. 63.}