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Pastel Then, Pastel Now

by Stephen Truax December 14, 2019January 15, 2021

The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history.

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Paintings of Friends and Lovers Whose Inner Lives Glow Around Them

by Harry Tafoya May 16, 2019May 17, 2019

Louis Fratino’s characters so fully inhabit their emotional states that the world of thoughtless violence and casual cruelty seems to dissolve around them.

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A Young Master of Painted Flesh

by John Yau April 28, 2019April 26, 2019

As invested as Louis Fratino is in his gay subject matter, what heightens the work is his formal mastery of the figure in space.

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Upending Conventions with Figurative Painting

by John Yau July 22, 2018July 20, 2018

The works of painters Angela Dufresne and Louis Fratino are far more radical than anything some conceptual artists have recently received attention for.

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