El Celso

El Celso is a post-graffiti artist working on and off the streets of the United States. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and is currently active in the New York and Los Angeles areas.

Career

He has been described in a recent issue of ARTnews as a “conceptualist” regarding his show at The Winkleman Gallery. described his show, “Art Burn,” an International contemporary art expo & immolation, as a “bonfire of the art vanities” [1] and the Miami Herald declared it “a funky Basel sideshow.” The New York Times described his previous exhibition, “Post No Bills,” a street art gallery installation in Long Island City as “audacious.”[2] The Brooklyn Rail describes El Celso as “a street artist with a taste for experimentation, a knack for making things happen and a predilection for drawing colorful naked women.”[3] His figurative drawings, paintings and original works on Plexiglas were also the subject of a documentary series, “The Streets of New York,” which was broadcast on NHK in Japan in 2008. His work is also featured in numerous publications, street art books and web sites.

Press articles and bibliography

Further references

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  1. Web onlyPublished online 4 Dec 09. "Bonfire of the art vanities". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  2. Kennedy, Randy (2008-07-02). "A Queens Construction Site Sprouts Artwork in a Show Called ‘Post No Bills’". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  3. Vartanian, Hrag. "The Very Public Life of Street Art". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  4. Web onlyPublished online 4 Dec 09. "Bonfire of the art vanities". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  5. Kennedy, Randy (2008-07-02). "A Queens Construction Site Sprouts Artwork in a Show Called ‘Post No Bills’". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  6. Vartanian, Hrag. "The Very Public Life of Street Art". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  7. el celso, celso (2011-04-18). ""el celso" "celso" "art" "artist" "art work" "paintings" "prints"". Elcelso.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.