(March 7, 2012 – New York) David Zwirner is pleased to present the work of Suzan Frecon at this year’s ADAA: The Art Show.

For the past four decades, 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.” As noted by Ken Johnson in The New York Times, “If beauty in painting is a crime, then Suzan Frecon must be counted as a major offender . . . Besides the deep, lush color, what makes Ms. Frecon’s works compelling is the sumptuous, tactile quality of the paint.”

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.

She has been represented by David Zwirner since 2008, and in 2010 her first solo show at the gallery, Suzan Frecon: recent painting, took place.

Frecon has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally. In 2008, her 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 has participated in a number of recent group exhibitions, including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California (2011 and 2009); Boston University Art Gallery (2010); and the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Works by the artist are represented in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She lives and works in New York.

2012 marks the eleventh year David Zwirner is exhibiting at ADAA: The Art Show. The gallery will participate in other fairs this year, including The Armory Show, AIPAD Photography Show, Frieze Art Fair, all in New York; Art Cologne; Art Hong Kong; Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach; Frieze Art Fair and Frieze Masters in London; and FIAC in Paris.

For media inquiries, contact: Julia Joern, David Zwirner, 212.727.2070 x123, julia@davidzwirner.com

For press passes to the fair, contact: Concetta Duncan, FITZ & CO, 212.627.1455 x232, concetta@fitzandco.com