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Painter Suzan Frecon joins in the New Social Environment #140 on the occasion of her solo exhibition David Zwirner, with hosting artists Joan Waltemath and Louis Block. Poet Pansy Maurer-Alvarez closes the event with a reading.
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Suzan Frecon is known for abstract oil paintings and works on paper that-as she describes her lifelong practice-“speak for themselves.” Frecon was born in 1941 in Mexico, Pennsylvania. Following a degree in fine arts from Pennsylvania State University in 1963, she spent three years at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied paintings in museums throughout Europe.
Joan Waltemath grew up on the Great Plains and now lives and works in New York City. Her abstract paintings focus on constructing spatial voids using harmonic progressions and non-traditional, reflective pigments in oil; their scale and dimensions address the body. New sewn canvas works explore the poetics of contingency. Shown in New York, Chicago, Portland, Baltimore, London, Basel and Cologne, her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Hammer Museum and the Harvard University Art Museum, among others. She has written extensively on art and served as editor-at-large of the Brooklyn Rail since 2001. She taught at the IS Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union from 1997 to 2010 and Princeton University often between 2000-9. She is currently the Director of MICA’s LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting.
Louis Block is a painter based in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Full Bleed Journal, and his work has been shown in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Venice.
Pansy Maurer-Alvarez was born in Puerto Rico and lives in Strasbourg. She has published 6 collections of poetry and is a contributing editor to Tears in the Fence and Osiris. She’s completing a book length poem, “Legend of the Winter Trip” and learning to play the Celtic harp.