strokes then turn
Suzan Frecon
American, born 1941
1999
A sheet of burnished paper marked with a few broad, looping strokes of reddish-brown gouache that record the artist’s deliberate, calligraphic gesture.
What strikes you is the bold, rhythmic sweep of a single thick line that turns and folds across the creased cream paper, its wet edges and shifting pigment making the mark feel both immediate and weathered.
Frecon’s pared-down gestures compress painting into intimate, meditative acts, reconnecting modernist abstraction to a tactile, contemplative practice that emphasizes color and touch as presence.
Medium
Gouache on burnished paper
Dimensions
17 1/4 x 13 3/8" (43.8 x 34 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Accession
104.2004
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