Invitation to the Light Factory | Suzan Frecon & Marcella Durand

October 3, 2026 – April 2, 2027
Nancy Hyatt Liddle Gallery and Collections Study Gallery

Painter Suzan Frecon and poet and translator Marcella Durand create a space for reimagining what collaboration can look like in the latest iteration of their project, The Light Factory. The exhibition features small-scale brushwork experiments with haematite pigments on paper by Frecon and ekphrastic poetry by Durand. Over a career spanning six decades, Frecon has made contemplative abstract paintings exploring relationships between material and light, and foundational structures and color. Durand, Frecon’s daughter, writes poems that intimately recreate the sights, sounds, and smells of the painter’s studio, and that draw associations with history and the larger world.

Support provided by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, The University at Albany Foundation, the University Auxiliary Services at Albany, the Ann C. Mataraso Endowment Fund, the Robin Kanson Lewis ’70 Exhibition Endowment Fund, the University Art Museum Director’s Fund, and the Jack and Gertrude Horan Memorial Fund for Student Outreach.

Press Release

Image credit: Suzan Frecon, untitled 7/2025, 2025, watercolor on paper, 10 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches, © Suzan Frecon/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner