Celso José Castro Daza

Jairo- Portrait. Watercolor and ink on archival paper drawing - Framed

2016

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...

"Taxi Driver, June 13th" by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Watercolor and ink on and archival paper. Sheet Size: 13.75 in. H x 9.75 in. W 2018 Unframed Drawing on paper is his basi...

"Pedro" by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Watercolor and ink on and archival paper. Sheet Size: 13.75 in. H x 9.75 in. W 2018 Unframed Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, som...

Jaider by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Watercolor, ink, and paster on an archival paper Sheet Size: 19.50 H x 13.75 W 2018 Unframed Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, s...

Taxi Driver, June 14 (Diptych) 2018 Dimensions 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W Unframed Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketche...

Ragazzo for Boys, Boys, Pride Watercolor, pencil and black ink on archival paper by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Individual size: 9.75 in. H x 13.5 Overall size: 9.75 H x 40.50 W ...

Antonio Pippolini Carmen de Lavellade Paper Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 10 3/48 1/4 inches (29.2 x 26 cm) Framed Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (36.2 x 27.3 cm)

Antonio Pippolini Geoffrey Holder 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Framed Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (36.2 x 27.3 cm)

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Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed). This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...