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

Footnotes

  1. Frangella CV at Visual Aids.
  2. "Luis Frangella, 46, Painter and Sculptor". New York Times. December 14, 1990. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
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