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Louis Fratino

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Cassandra

Salman Toor

Jerry Saltz

Jenna Gribbon

Doron Langberg

London Hughes

Louisa Buck

Michael Craig-Martin

Luke Evans

Helen Cammock

David Dawson

Lucian Freud

David Shrigley

Mark Neville

Rose McGowan

Paul Smith

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Good friend Lou is repulsed by the Cassandras’ Mediterranean oatmeal recipe, preferring instead a garnish of freshly grated nutmeg (never pulverized). We settle our culinary differences with the painter while dining on “the Bushwick pizza of record” during a final night at his old studio. He walks us through his campaign against the Guggenheim, opening Grindr in Annapolis, sailors putting lube on an obelisk, leaving his house in Italy to his gayest niece in his will, getting called out for kicking his senile dog Margaret by a Baltimore light rail employee, his secret past as an RA, his new french-vanilla country-kitchen abode in Greenpoint, the squirrel nibbling on his bergamot, swimming laps at the Y, the letter his stalker mailed to his mother, the nasty toys boyfriend Tom (diddling off-mic) collects off the street, his crucial high school musical voice-crack, the bitchy painters in Delacroix’s journals, “dappling” a la Anne Carson, a dead pigeon portrait as ode to New York, the sophomore pressures precluding his solo show Morning, and what gay men have to do with the mud in the Chesapeake Bay.

Good friend Lou is repulsed by the Cassandras’ Mediterranean oatmeal recipe, preferring instead a garnish of freshly grated nutmeg (never pulverized). We settle our culinary differences with the painter while dining on “the Bushwick pizza of record” during a final night at his old studio. He walks us through his campaign against the Guggenheim, opening Grindr in Annapolis, sailors putting lube on an obelisk, leaving his house in Italy to his gayest niece in his will, getting called out for kicking his senile dog Margaret by a Baltimore light rail employee, his secret past as an RA, his new french-vanilla country-kitchen abode in Greenpoint, the squirrel nibbling on his bergamot, swimming laps at the Y, the letter his stalker mailed to his mother, the nasty toys boyfriend Tom (diddling off-mic) collects off the street, his crucial high school musical voice-crack, the bitchy painters in Delacroix’s journals, “dappling” a la Anne Carson, a dead pigeon portrait as ode to New York, the sophomore pressures precluding his solo show Morning, and what gay men have to do with the mud in the Chesapeake Bay.

Louis Fratino on Seagulls and Seamen

Russell and Robert meet American artist Louis Fratino in London! Drawing inspiration from personal experience and, more recently, photographic source material, Fratino makes paintings and drawings of the male body. His work includes portraits, nudes, and intimate scenes of male couples engaged in activities ranging from the mundane to the graphically sexual. The result is a body of work that is a loving and honest expression of the contemporary gay experience. With great attention to surface and color, features such as an earlobe, belly button, body hair, or the curves and planes of the body are accentuated and stylized in Fratino's work, complimenting the sensual appeal of his subject.Born in 1993, in Annapolis, MD, Fratino received his BFA in Painting with concentration in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2015. Recent exhibitions include Night and Day, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY (solo); Heirloom, Antoine Levi Gallery, Paris (solo); Youth and Beauty!, MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, 2018 (group); and Matisse + Fratino, Cabinet Printemps, Düsseldorf, 2018 (group). He is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin (2015-16) and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT in 2014. Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.For more details on Louis' works, check out #LouisFratino hashtag on Instagram or visit his galleries @SikkemaJenkins (New York) or @AntoineLevi (Paris). If you've enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email talkartpodcast@gmail.com as we love hearing your feedback! @TalkArt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russell and Robert meet American artist Louis Fratino in London! Drawing inspiration from personal experience and, more recently, photographic source material, Fratino makes paintings and drawings of the male body. His work includes portraits, nudes, and intimate scenes of male couples engaged in activities ranging from the mundane to the graphically sexual. The result is a body of work that is a loving and honest expression of the contemporary gay experience. With great attention to surface and color, features such as an earlobe, belly button, body hair, or the curves and planes of the body are accentuated and stylized in Fratino's work, complimenting the sensual appeal of his subject.Born in 1993, in Annapolis, MD, Fratino received his BFA in Painting with concentration in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2015. Recent exhibitions include Night and Day, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY (solo); Heirloom, Antoine Levi Gallery, Paris (solo); Youth and Beauty!, MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, 2018 (group); and Matisse + Fratino, Cabinet Printemps, Düsseldorf, 2018 (group). He is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin (2015-16) and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT in 2014. Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.For more details on Louis' works, check out #LouisFratino hashtag on Instagram or visit his galleries @SikkemaJenkins (New York) or @AntoineLevi (Paris). If you've enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email talkartpodcast@gmail.com as we love hearing your feedback! @TalkArt Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Louis Fratino was born in 1993 in Maryland and currently lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He recently had solo shows at Monya Rowe Gallery in Florida, Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City and Platform Gallery in Baltimore, MD. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at HILDE Gallery in Los Angeles, Harpy Gallery in New Jersey, and Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York, NY. He also is currently in a four person show at D.C. Moore Gallery. He completed a Fulbright research Fellowship in Painting in Berlin, and has also concluded the Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music in Norfolk, CT. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at Maryland Institute of Art, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Current Space, and SessionSpace, among others. His work was recently covered by Roberta Smith in the New York Times. Brian met up with Louis at his studio in Long Island City where they discussed his time growing up in Maryland, working small and scale shifts in painting, hia time  working at the Guggenheim, striving for non-thinking time and much more.

Louis Fratino was born in 1993 in Maryland and currently lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He recently had solo shows at Monya Rowe Gallery in Florida, Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City and Platform Gallery in Baltimore, MD. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at HILDE Gallery in Los Angeles, Harpy Gallery in New Jersey, and Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York, NY. He also is currently in a four person show at D.C. Moore Gallery. He completed a Fulbright research Fellowship in Painting in Berlin, and has also concluded the Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music in Norfolk, CT. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at Maryland Institute of Art, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Current Space, and SessionSpace, among others. His work was recently covered by Roberta Smith in the New York Times. Brian met up with Louis at his studio in Long Island City where they discussed his time growing up in Maryland, working small and scale shifts in painting, hia time working at the Guggenheim, striving for non-thinking time and much more.