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Mon, Sep 16, 2024 12:00PM EDT - Mon, Sep 30, 2024 08:30PM EDT
  2024-09-16 12:00:00 2024-09-30 20:30:00 America/New_York Drawing Center Drawing Center : 2024 Benefit Auction https://auction.drawingcenter.org/auctions/the-drawing-center/2024-benefit-auction-16224
"A Selection of Great Art by People Who Know What They Like." Funds raised through TDC's 2024 benefit auction will provide critical support for our ambitious roster of exhibitions, publications, education initiatives, and public programs. Bidding begins on Monday, September 16 at 12pm EST, and closes on Monday, September 30 at 8:30pm EST. The Drawing Center rbrickman@drawingcenter.org
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Louis Fratino "Sex", 2018
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Louis Fratino "Sex", 2018

Estimate: $12,000 - $12,000
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Louis Fratino
"Sex", 2018
Ink on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)

Courtesy of the Artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
 

Selected by Claire Gilman


Louis Fratino makes paintings and drawings from specific memory and art historical references. He synthesizes visual languages sampled from antiquity to modernism to describe the contemporary body, landscape, and interior spaces. Fratino’s work explores the queerness in the gestures of everyday life. Born in 1993, in Annapolis, MD, Louis Fratino received his BFA in Painting with concentration in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2015. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin (2015-16) and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT (2014). Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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