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Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present Come Softly to Me, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Louis Fratino. This is Fratino’s first exhibition with the gallery, and will be on view April 18 through May 24, 2019.

Louis Fratino’s deeply intimate paintings, often featuring lovers, family, friends, and the artist himself, present the human figure as a site of vast emotive expression. Paint is applied and blended in swathes of color and texture, forming a seductive tactility mirrored in the painted subject matter. Drawing from an art historical lineage of modernist figure …