Louis Fratino (b. 1993, Annapolis, MD) creates paintings and drawings that speak to the resonance of personal memory and the quiet sublimity of everyday presences and spaces. Drawing from the visual languages of European and American modernism, his sensitive handling of light and its painted interactions with form and color evoke an unassuming subjectivity in quotidian moments and intimate scenes.

In his painting "Early spring flowers," a blooming bouquet fills the majority of the pictorial space at a larger-than-life scale, its flowers extending outwards and beyond the edge of the canvas. His richly textured application of paint effects a sensual transition of color between light and dark hues and a contrast between vibrant yellow flowers and neighboring violet-tinged petals. In front of the vase, the placement of a small plate with a half-eaten egg suggests a specificity of memory or personal experience—a closely-felt interiority, in which one takes time to appreciate the beauty that lies in front of them.