Frederic Tuten | Flowers, Plants and Other Romances
Plants and A Black Cup, 2018
Ink on cardboard
10 x 8 inches
$850
Jazzy Nights, 2019
Ink on cardboard
11 x 7 1/2 inches
$850
The Sultan's Lounge, 2018
Ink on cardboard
9 x 6 inches
$850
On the Astral Plane, 2018
Ink on cardboard
9 x 13 inches
$850
Dialogue At Dawn, 2019
Ink on cardboard
8 x 10 inches
$850
Frederic Tuten | Flowers, Plants, and Other Romances
On View: April 4 – April 13, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4 from 6 – 8 PM
Planthouse is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent drawings on cardboard by author Frederic Tuten.
Frederic Tuten grew up in the Bronx and later lived in South America and Paris, where he taught film and literature at the University of Paris 8. He has written about art, literature, and film in Art Forum, The New York Times, Vogue; was an actor in an Alain Resnais movie; taught with Paul Bowles in Morocco; and co-wrote the cult-classic Possession. He has earned three Pushcart Prizes for fiction, an O’Henry Prize for a short story, a Ph.D. in literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of five novels: Tintin in the New World; Tallien: A Brief Romance; Van Gogh’s Bad Café; The Green Hour; and a book of inter-related short stories; Self Portraits: Fictions. His memoir My Young Life was published by Simon & Schuster in March 2019.
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Watch the My Young Life documentary.