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 (b. 1964) 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. Tuten has written five novels, including The Adventures of Mao on the Long March (1971),Tallien: A Brief Romance (1988), Tintin in the New World: A Romance (1993), Van Gogh’s Bad Café (1997), and The Green Hour (2002). 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.
Tuten studied as an undergrad at the City College of New York. He then studied art history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and then earned a PhD in 19th-century American literature from New York University. He has earned three Pushcart Prizes for fiction, an O’Henry Prize for a short story, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Tuten’s memoir My Young Life was published by Simon & Schuster in March 2019.
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Watch the My Young Life documentary.