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Magic Realist Masterworks on View at Jonathan Boos
NEW YORK, New York
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Jonathan Boos has a group of important and rare Magic Realist works on view at our New York gallery by Peter Blume, Henry Koerner, Alton Pickens and George Tooker. We welcome you to call or email the gallery to make an appointment to visit.
On February 27th, the Georgia Museum of Art will open “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism,” the first sustained survey of Magical Realism in four decades. “Extra Ordinary” celebrates American artists who embraced realism, representation and classical artistic techniques in an era dominated by Abstraction. On view through June 13th, the show features significant works by Ivan Albright, Peter Blume, Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood, Jared French, Henry Koerner, Hughie Lee-Smith, George Tooker and John Wilde.
Brooklyn Artist Louis Fratino Is Depicting Gay Male Sex and Intimacy in the More Chill Gen Z Era of PrEP
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
To someone (like this writer) with only a middling knowledge of art, it’s hard not to immediately think “gay Picasso” upon first seeing the paintings of Louis Fratino, 27, the Brooklyn-based painter who’s gotten a lot of attention from the art world in recent years and just finished up his second solo show,
Morning, at New York City’s Sikkema Jenkins & Co. gallery. Fratino’s images of hunky, furry, young gay men having sex or lying around, alone or together, are decidedly non-naturalistic, boasting a lot of the Picassoesque features of modernism, such as body parts painted out of proportion or perspective, or broken up into cubistic components. The work also evokes Picasso contemporaries Marsden Hartley and Marc Chagall, as well as Fratino’s own well-known peers including Dana Schutz and Nicole Eisenman, artists whose work blends