Luis Frangella
| Luis Frangella | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 6, 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died |
December 7, 1990 (aged 46) New York City, New York, United States |
Luis Frangella (July 6, 1944 — December 7, 1990) was an Argentinian figurative post-modern painter and sculptor associated with the expressionist painting of the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. He died of AIDS in 1990.[1][2]
Education
Frangella earned a Master of Architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1972. From 1973 to 1976 he worked as a Research Fellow at the Advanced Visual Studies area of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began to paint there.[2]
New York City
Frangella moved to New York City's East Village in 1976, and in the early 1980s he helped organize exhibitions at Limbo, an artists' after-hours club. [3]
Selected Exhibitions
- 2011 LA JARRA VERTIENTE O MÁQUINA DE DIBUJAR, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
- 1990 GROUP OF 16, Museum of Modern Art, Madrid, Spain
- 1989 DRAWINGS, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
- 1988 EXIT ART PERFORMANCE WITH M. AMACHER, Exit Art, New York
- INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, Buades Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- 1987 New Jersey Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
- 1986 Buades Gallery, Madrid, Spain (solo)
- Eaton-Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo)
- Civilian Warfare, New York (solo)
- PAINTING & SCULPTURE TODAY, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
- 1985 Hal Bromm Gallery, New York (solo)
- Civilian Warfare, New York (solo)
- 1984 Galeria Ciento, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
- Del Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Bar-Bar, Stockholm Sweden
- Civilian Warfare, New York
- 1983 Hal Bromm Gallery, New York (solo)
- 1982 Alberto Elia, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo)
- 1981 Galeria Buades, Madrid, Spain (solo)
- Galeria Ciento, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Footnotes
- ↑ Frangella CV at Visual Aids.
- ↑ "Luis Frangella, 46, Painter and Sculptor". New York Times. December 14, 1990. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
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