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Article: Suspense artist: a traveling show highlights painter Suzan Frecon's skillful balance of the rational and the romantic.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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In an interview in the catalogue for her exhibition at the Menil Collection of mostly recent oil paintings and watercolors, Suzan Frecon says, "When I looked at good paintings, I noticed that they were always strongly composed so as to be ineluctably suspended.... I think one has to see this for oneself by looking at paintings and having the meaning of visual suspension reveal itself little by little."
It is a rare pleasure to find that an artist's articulation of intent accords so strongly with one's own subjective response to her work. In a variety of ways, Frecon's paintings do indeed seem to hover--about, above and between. She often favors forms that seem ...