COME SOFTLY TO ME

Louis Fratino, Metropolitan, 2019, oil on canvas, 60 x 94.75 inches (152.4 x 240.7 cm). Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Louis Fratino:come Softly to me

Drawing inspiration from personal experience and, more recently, photographic source material, Louis 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.