Fashion forward.

The illustrator Robert Fontanelli had an all-too-quick show in Chelsea last week that I, unfortunately, missed. A friend sent me pictures on his iPhone of Fontanelli’s drawings which led me to his site. His work is a combination of fashion illustration and homoerotic imagery mixed with the fetishism of all things mid-century modern. Some of the images are sexy (“Storage”) while others are, somewhat, disturbing ("Rape of Red Eames Chair #1"). All of them are, in my humble opinion, brilliant.

Comments

[Ruth Marten]

I was lucky enough to see the aforementioned show and it was, indeed, brilliant. Other massively talented artists included Paul Caranicas and Carlos Aponte. Everyone was sterling.
Robert Fontinelli has, with this new body of work, combined his passions and has successfully bound them together with his wonderful humor and gifted handling of media. He also combined a portrait image with interesting shaped objects on an accompanying shelf. Good, good stuff!

[Corey Grant Tippin "Mixed -Up "]

This seductive and intelligent new work of Mr Fontanelli
is the antidote to the banal state of "acceptable"
current illustration catagorized as homoerotic .

He is a visual poet .

I am honored to be representing some of his earlier studys : google Corey Grant Tippin "mixed-up"