Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez

Blue Chroma, Figurative nude. Oil on canvas. Painting

2020

M with Stocking by Efren Isaza Image printed onto a canvas, intervened with paint, ink, and intentionally scratched by the artist Measures: 66 in. H x 55 in. W Signed, titled, dated,...

Two Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board Image size: 40.5 H in. x 55.5 in. W Mounted on acid-free board: 41 H x 56 in. W Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, 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...

Yellow Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza One of a kind Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board Image size: 52.5 H in. x 37.8 in. W M...

Untitled Acrylic on Canvas, Mounted on canvas One of a kind 36 in. H x 36 in. W inches D 2. 2020 ________________________________ Juan C. Estrada combines realism and surrealism in...

Bend Over, #2264 by Natasha Zupan Collage on paper Measures: 11 in. H x 8.85 in. W One of a kind Signed lower right on recto by the artist 2018 Natasha Zupa...

Twins with red coat Framed archival pigment image on canvas, intervened with hand-applied paint, ink and intentionally scratched by the artist Image size: H 25 in. x 27 in. W Frame s...

«Ta meg i mot» oil on canvas by Anastína Eyjólfsdóttir. A toppless woman equipped with blue boxing gloves poses by the shore. Behind her, the sky and small strip of sea create a bl...

This painting is from my undergrad senior thesis at Skidmore College in 2013. This was an important painting for me because it was the very first bridge between my print making and ...

Large scale acrylic painting with gold oil paint elements of female nude lounging in her home office chair. Bold, confident, and bright, this painti...

This painting is from my undergrad senior thesis at Skidmore College in 2013. This was an important painting for me because it was the very first bridge between my print making and ...

Red Nude oil on canvas Original, one-of-a-kind, painting. FRAMED with gold minimalist frame Part of "Nude in Interior" solo show, March 2022. Artist Statement "I started by painti...

"Nude in French interior", in a room lighted from one side. Part of my Nude in interior series. Inspired in contrast and colors by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Nude placed in a French palace, a sober classical interior in contrast with the modern relaxed attitude of the main character. Size is 150x150cm / 59x59in, oil on canvas. Painting was part of my solo show "Nude in Interior", March 2022. Can be shipped rolled in a tube for faster and less expensive shipping. Please inquire. "I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now. As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space. My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair. Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes...