Luis Frangella

Luis Frangella
Born	July 6, 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	December 7, 1990 (aged 46) New York City, New York, United States
Bildung	Architecture, Visual Arts
Alma mater	Universidad de Buenos Aires, MIT
Movement	post-modern, figurativism, expressionism
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship

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.

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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, "New Sculpture" (group)
• 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)