Frecon received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania and subsequently studied painting at the University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France and École Nationale Superiéure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
She is represented by Lawrence Markey, San Antonio and David Zwirner, New New York Frecon"s first solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York was on view in the fall of 2010. On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalogue was published by Radius Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
lieutenant features a text by art historian Joachim Pissarro as well as illustrations of her most recent large-scale oil paintings.
Other major solo exhibitions include the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (2008), Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2006 and 2008), and The Drawing Center, New York (2002). Recently, her work was the focus of another solo exhibition at David Zwirner, entitled oil paintings and sun.
Her work has also been included in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 2000 and 2010. Frecon"s works are represented in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia The Museum of Modern Art, New New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New New York
The Menil Collection, Houston. And the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
