Edward Zelinsky

Frank N. Stein, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Watercolor Paper

2024

I just draw them... the things that go through my mind these days... The medium was derived from reduced beet juice. Something original in this busy world? I think so... :: Drawin...

Lately when I draw I put my mind in neutral and just... draw. Fill the paper. I think of it as American Expressionism. Angst... :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an...

Jairo, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza Watercolor and ink on archival paper Image size: 53 H in. x 36 in. W Unframed Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. ____________ Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...

Figure is an original drawing in china ink on paper realized by Henri Espinouze. With the stamp of “Atelier H. Espinouze” on the lower right. The state of preservation is good and a...