About the Author

For over five decades, American artist Suzan Frecon (b. 1941) has created abstract oil paintings and works on paper that are at once reductive and expressive. Made over long stretches of time, her canvases embody the durational activity of painting itself and invite the viewer's sustained attention: these, asthe artist herself has noted, are "paintings that you experience."

John Yau is the author of seventeen books of poetry, four books of fiction, and two collections of criticism. His most recent book of poetry, Bijoux in the Dark, was published in 2018.He has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets, among others. He was the 2018 recipient of the Jackson Poetry Prize

Reviews

"The solid, organic abstract forms of the painter Suzan Frecon carve out a zone of formal concentration"-- "The New York Times"

"Each shape is of a single hue of remarkable depth and inner variation, partly due to the pigment being suspended in rich concentrations of oil mediums that can vary from glossy to matte."--Stephen Westfall "Art in America"

"Frecon's merging of color and shape is an unexpected development, and, to my mind, her evocative use of color is rivaled only by Brice Marden..."--John Yau "Hyperallergic"

"It is a finely attuned openness to the world that we encounter in Frecon's work, a sense of color unlike anyone else's."--John Yau "Hyperallergic"

"The real novelty of these abstractions is the texture."--Rema Hort "Whitewall"