Installation View, Giving Shape to Space: Frecon, Sandback, Taylor, David Zwirner, New York, 2025
EFA Studio Member Suzan Frecon’s work is on view now through April 19, alongside works by Fred Sandback and Al Taylor.
These artists—who have been central to the gallery’s program over the course of the past two decades—intersected in New York, living and working in the city and encountering each other’s work. Eschewing the various artistic styles that came in and out of fashion—in particular minimal, postminimal, and conceptual practices—in favor of distinctive individual modes of expression, each artist over time developed their own method for giving shape to space. Seen together, these three singular takes on abstraction find commonality in an innovative treatment of material, color, form, and line. Each facilitates a dynamic interchange between positive and negative space, privileging the experience of the viewer as a crucial component of their respective practices.
While Frecon, Sandback, and Taylor were independently engaged in their own visual exploration using different materials, they showed at some of the same galleries—including Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, and Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York—and ran into each other at popular spots, overlapping at a particular moment in downtown New York’s storied avant-garde history.