Louis Fratino

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Louis Fratino (born 1993) is an American visual artist. [1] [2] [3]

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Education

Fratino graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2015.[ citation needed ] Fratino was a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin, 2015–2016 and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT in 2014. [4]

Work

Art critic Roberta Smith writes of Fratino's paintings, "Seemingly painted mostly in the same interior, they are also hot with the pleasure of lying-around-the-house domesticity, of shared privacy. And they are hot too with painterly attention and erudition — inviting a similar scrutiny from the viewer. Nearly every brush stroke and mark, every detail of furnishings and body hair, has a life of its own." [5] Similarly, Antwaun Sargent writes in The New York Times, "Fratino and these other contemporary gay figure artists share a philosophy, despite their different aesthetics: They’re all committed to reflecting the mostly unseen interior lives of the men they admire, and to celebrating a diverse set of subjects who, taken together, stand in opposition to a canonical history of art that has long ignored an openly gay view of the male body." [6] Elsewhere, the writer Durga Chew-Bose notes, "Fratino’s moony eye for the erotic is trained on details that rouse otherwise mundane prospects... which features two eggs on toast as well as other quotidian clues lyrically scattered on a round tabletop, discombobulates scale in its ode to the Cubist tableau-objet." [7]

The artist was included in the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. [8] [9] [10] [11]

Exhibitions

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References

  1. ↑ Alessandrini, Christopher (2019-05-18). "'Boys Do It Better': The Paintings of Louis Fratino". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ↑ Chew-Bose, Durga (2021-03-01). "OPENINGS: LOUIS FRATINO". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  3. ↑ Chilvers, Simon (2024-09-27). "Louis Fratino would like to get intimate". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  4. ↑ "Louis Fratino". Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  5. ↑ Cotter, Holland; Smith, Roberta; Schwendener, Martha (2017-09-28). "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  6. ↑ Sargent, Antwaun (2018-09-17). "These Gay Figure Artists Are Reimagining the Male Gaze". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  7. ↑ Chew-Bose, Durga (2021-03-01). "OPENINGS: LOUIS FRATINO". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  8. ↑ Article, Eileen Kinsella ShareShare This (2024-09-26). "Louis Fratino Is a Star of the Venice Biennale. Good Luck Getting One of His Paintings". Artnet News. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  9. ↑ Larios, Pablo (2024-04-17). "VENICE DIARIES: FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  10. ↑ Halle, Howard (2024-06-05). "LGBTQ+ Artists Having Institutional Shows This Pride Month". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  11. ↑ Rabb, Maxwell (2024-01-31). "Artists announced for Venice Biennale 2024, which will spotlight queer and Indigenous names". Artsy. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
  12. ↑ ""Heirloom", Louis Fratino « Galerie Antoine Levi". antoinelevi.fr. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  13. ↑ "Louis Fratino | So I've Got You Images — Thierry Goldberg Gallery". thierrygoldberg.com. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  14. ↑ "Monya Rowe Gallery - Own, Only". monyarowegallery.com. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  15. ↑ "REASONS". platform-gallery. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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