The Art Design Project is pleased to announce its online exhibition:
BREEZE, Works by FRANCISCO LARIOS, DANIEL CASIQUE, JUAN C. ESTRADA, CELSO CASTRO and MARIA JOSÉ ARJONA.

Daniel Casique's paintings reflect a point-of-view that possesses a unique voice that speaks an independent message to every viewer. In almost all of his paintings, nature occupies a key place in work. He uses nature to show deep and dramatic the emotional state that most people go through in their life. More so, the intention behind many of the artist's artworks is to express emotional states subject to experiences that helped to steer the course of how to hatch this fragment of history in life through a figurative composition.

Painter Francisco Larios studied design and specialized in Art History by Universidad La Salle, Laguna. His work belongs to public and private collection such as: Museum of Contemporary Artm San Diego, California; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Colección FEMSA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Museo Carrillo Gil and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.Francisco Larios practices painting, open-concept drawing, and the use of software to create two and three-dimensional visual environments. In his imagination, the postmodern condition is achieved in terms that contemporary culture is the starting point for the elaboration of sceneries that manifest the return to sacred references, philosophical themes, and immemorial fabulations.

In Larios' work landscape is treated conceptually, sometimes, as space where studies of the dreamlike, the bond between human beings and their surroundings, and the nature of objects develop; in other cases as the practice of graphic representation of mathematical, physical, and musical principles which part from the idea of the horizon as divisive line and as a limit. Larios's production is a poetic, ironic, and reflexive exploration of the state of our relationship with faith, will, and destiny.

JC Estrada-Duran combines realism and surrealism in his work. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Juan Carlos moved to Miami in 2012 and has been studying art since. He trained himself to draw by using comic books and the environment as a point of reference and inspiration. He prefers to use pencil and paper as his medium and loves to sketch black and white drawings some of them with gold accents.

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.

María José Arjona was trained as a contemporary dancer before turning to performance art. María José Arjona (b.1973 in Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in her native Bogota. The Kiss was a self-taken photograph and was part of her solo exhibition in New York at the Art Space Location One, in 2012. The Kiss maps a system uniting two bodies. It is a gesture magnified by the use of sound emerging from the action of kissing and intensified by the working presence of the performer’s body. “The Kiss” (is a long durational performance), a breathing system where the performer’s body becomes the intersection enabling the entire organism to work, reveals the intricate rhythm between lungs, fluids, and muscles while kissing. The body is the kiss: the plane of action created by it. This intersecting plane finds its translation into sound via the repetitive action of inflating and deflating two huge latex balloons."