‘Louis Fratino’ by Jordan Weitzman
2025
It’s been nearly a decade since I first met Louis Fratino at his Long Island studio. His scrappy dog, Margaret, sat growling as he asked if he could draw me. That was the first time I saw him work—his eyes flickering calmly between me and the sketchbook, his focus both relaxed and razor-sharp. I remember looking around the space with a kind of childlike wonder: at a tiny canvas of a face bathed in red and purple club light, a towering painting of his boyfriend in a bathtub, glowing in brilliant blues. Even then, his work pulsed with intimacy, vignettes of everyday life rendered with his unique sense of color and gesture.
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