Suzan Frecon Oil Paintings at DAVID ZWIRNER

James Kalm received a pleading request from a West Coast viewer to “please, please, please…cover the Suzan Frecon show…” With something like 45,000 subscribers to his channels, and a constant torrent of requests and for favors, it’s become a required policy to ignore most of them. But as a hard-core paint-head, in the case of Suzan Frecon, these sanctions were lifted.
Suzan Frecon has been pursuing her artistic practice for decades, and has come into her own since the turn of the millennium, to gain general recognition. Working with a very personal, hands-on technique of grinding and mixing her various oils, solvents, and pigment, the painter builds compositions of elegant simplicity on a viewer encompassing scale. Displaying a hard-won expertise of color contrast, surface texture and compositional design, Frecon distills her painterly impulses to a highly refined lucidity that is little short of sublime. This program was recorded September 25, 2020. #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk
Here's a link to the review by Jason Stopa:
hyperallergic.com/589399/a-re...

[@benedwards1047]

So good to see the New York School flourishing. Suzan is a great addition to the tradition. Thank-you Kate

[@johoward8644]

Lovely to hear your voice again James, we missed you. Diarmuid and Jo. Ireland

[@pascaledelloue4007]

Wonderfull to see all these exhibition from Tarbes France as à student at the art school

[@chezceleste]

Watching from Lourdes.

[@_hallblade_]

Thanks for looking at this show James. My wife wishes I made paintings like this. Ha.

[@juliamargaretcameron]

Something about your voice especially at the end of this, when you say : "Thank you, Kate." that is so heartwarming and intimate, like being told a secret whispered in one's ear. I wish you would consider composing a simple ditty like Good Night Irene and sing it for us...

[@janetdowda7296]

You make every review so interesting. You are very aware. Thanks! San Miguel, Mexico

[@oscargarcia1646]

I was intrigued by Suzan Frecon’s color & forms recently, enough to purchase a monograph. It has an essay by Richard Shiff & features some watercolors & her smaller oils. When I received the notice of this vlog it was like adding icing to my paint-head cake! Thanks for sharing & Thank you Kate!

[@megawatt2916]

So happy to see this. Thanks for following orders!

[@jakemoo7553]

Thank you James... I enjoyed that.

[@lieschenart]

Thank you covering this show and thank you Kate, again!

[@pennykent5687]

Nice job!!!👍 Thank you for posting this! 😃 Really nice work!!!👍 And, thank you Kate.🙂

[@lovepeace3041]

THANK YOU, KATE! And you, too, Mr. Kalm.

[@chezceleste]

Thank you Kate.

[@jhb61249]

I'm delight to get to see this video. I do like what I see, though it honestly is not my favorite choice of her works. But I appreciate the opportunity and your efforts to bring it to people around the world. Thanks James and Kate.

[@gavinyates9189]

Thank you Kate, thank you everybody.

[@christianegonbarnthaler1426]

super art✌

[@thirdrockjul2224]

Thank you Kate

[@slimnics]

love this and love Donald sultans work too. makes me want to make my own paint.

[@gizmogoose.2486]

It's a great change up. I *like* the work! My only let down is, there aren't enough. If there were multiple works on each wall, the pieces would kind of give each other context and "talk" to each other....especially if they were hung in chronological order so we could see her technique sort of sprout and grow !!!

[@anthonymorton3074]

thanks MR Kalm! legend! maverick!

[@anthonymorton3074]

thanks kate

[@anthonymorton3074]

the written addition to the film is winning

[@blaiserosenthal163]

Thank you!

[@cezartb]

Thank you! Best channel

[@xxjones]

👌

[@StephenS-2024]

I can dig it. So to speak. Her pictures make me think, among other things, of ʻOumuamua. Strangely enough.

[@markpx]

Carry a white color swatch with you to set your white balance, and keep WB on manual. You won't' get bizarrely colored walls and you will represent the art much more accurately and respectfully.

[@Krishna-nb9mq]

Her painting surfaces are magical, they seem to have this light play and change in hue as you engage with them. Are they like that in person?

[@jameskalm]

Yes @Krishna Sarmiento, their quality is extraordinary, and hard to describe...

[@konzeptwerks6710]

Some of it in the browns and warm tones put me in mind of bread crust. It adds a whole new sensory avenue to explore. Oil Painting and FOOD. My favs!

[@BICICLETASFORTUNA]

Wow, Increíble. Como siempre, muchas gracias por compartir. Presentar esas pinturas con luz natural en sala me parece una hermosa idea, pero fue un gran desafío para la cámara. ¿con que estarán barnizados? Desde Argentina un saludo, esperando que estés bien y seguro.

[@JadenJahci]

Shout out to Banksy! (Thx K8) “Oi”! Best Wishes, (A Make Shift Par Of) Dorothy’s Ruby Red Slippers Hitched (by string)To A Card Board Cut Out Of A Trophy ... Nice One Mate!

[@claireseyeviewonredbubble]

She seems to contrast her surfaces placing a thick satin sheen next to a thin matt paint.

[@MikeWitmerNatureJournal]

Well done. Surfaces are very interesting. There is a lot to look at and enjoy if one just slows down a bit and takes these in as you are doing here.

[@M0D60]

Reminds me of Rothko

[@andreabammybartlet8754]

thankyou......beautifully awkward paintings

[@cohencohen54]

Well-promoted by art critics who own her work and do what they can to jack up her prices. Art made for the rich by the rich. No it u lover.

[@user-ep6zj9pd1h]

Stop. Dont move camera

[@hieronymustard57]

I get this is nonobjective but those wedges look like bikini bottoms. The gap between canvases would be butt cracks. Or maybe I need to get out more.

[@vasukinagaraj]

Yes.

[@josephcambron7060]

Sad that someone could put garbage like this forward as their work. The art world is such scum.

[@shimy333]

modern art is garbage...say whatever you want ...to refer to that as a "composition" is clownish

[@nonstopdemo]

I think you are lost, the sports and political channels are on the front page!

[@jizzus3445]

@@nonstopdemo excellent ! Thank you

[@pollyjeanmartin2150]

Yawn.