In Conversation: Louis Fratino and Robert Glück

On the occasion of Spotlight: Louis Fratino, FLAG will host a discussion with artist Louis Fratino, and writer Robert Glück, moderated by FLAG director Jonathan Rider.

Louis Fratino (b. 1993, Annapolis, MD) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Fratino received his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015. His first institutional solo exhibition, Louis Fratino. Satura, is currently on view at Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy through May 11, 2025. Other recent solo exhibitions include In bed and abroad, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY (2023); Louis Fratino, Litografia Bulla, Rome, Italy (2023), and Die bunten Tage, Galerie Neu, Berlin (2022). Fratino was featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Fratino’s work is in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. Fratino is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin (2015-16) and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT in 2014.

Robert Glück is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and New Narrative theorist and is Emeritus Professor of San Francisco State University. He was the director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, and co-director of Small Press Traffic Literary Center. In addition, Glück worked as associate editor of Lapis Press. He is the recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship 2002 and a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant 2003. He is the author of the story collections, Elements (Four Seasons Foundation, 1982, and Ithuriel's Spear, 2013) and Denny Smith (Clear Cut Press, 2003); the novels, Jack the Modernist (GPNY, 1985, and High Risk/Serpent's Tail, 1995), Margary Kempe (High Risk/Serpent's Tail, 1994, and New York Review Books, 2020), and About Ed (New York Review Books, 2023); and a volume of collected essays Communal Nude (Semiotext(e), 2016).  His books of poetry include La Fontaine (Black Star Series, 1981) with Bruce Boone, Reader (Lapis Press, 1989), In Commemoration of the Visit (Further Other Book Works, 2016) with Kathleen Fraser, and I, Boombox (Roof Books, 2023). In 2025 New York Review Books will republish Jack the Modernist.  

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