Eclectix's Main Mama Site

- Greetings Dearest Followers -

In case you haven't noticed, we are not posting much here on the Eclectix Arts blog anymore, all our features will now be found at the main mama site – Eclectix.com. We have redesigned the site, consolidating all the Eclectix art news features, artist interviews and exhibition listings into one happy home.

We have gotten all our ducks in a row, so to speak...

Eclectix Link

There are new share/follow buttons for you to keep up with Eclectix and our re-designed exhibit listing pages make it easier to find the cool shows when you are out and about – on your mobile device. Even if you are out of the country we’ve got some selected venues for you – in English, on the Arts Calendar.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

Arts Calendar Link

artMRKT San Francisco 2011 Review

Detail - Sean Cheetham

Wonderful lady atop her fabulous tent dress at the artMRKT entrance.

It was a big weekend in SF for art, lots of art fairs going on. Eclectix visited two, the artMRKT and the ArtPadSF. ArtPad was our favorite for reasons (saved for a later review and post), however artMRKT was really rewarding and worthwhile. It was held at the Concourse Exhibition Center in downtown San Francisco, a gigantic space with a ton of great art. There were many familiar artists whose work we love and have reviewed in the past plus many new. We have featured images of most, concentrating on our favorite picks of the newer (to us) artists. Many of the images are large and cropped to allow the detail to show. Our apologies for not getting the names of all the artists, all the fantastic art affected our brain functions a little. (Plus the art fairs all have bars just like at opening receptions, after many hours it all adds up!) If you do know the name of the uncredited ones, please comment and we will update the posts. If you decide to go next year and are pressed for cash, search around the web for free tickets, they are easily obtainable. But try to support the fairs if you can. Enjoy the art, we sure did!

Chris Antemann

Chris Antemann

Need the artist's name...

Need the artist's name...

Love the textures in these portraits - Need the artist's name...

Great white faced, little black girl with cotton flowered hair - Need the artist's name...

David Michael Bowers

Talk about realism! - (Detail of above) - David Michael Bowers

Detail of a Mark Ryden

Chester Arnold

Shin-Young An

Detail,  Shin-Young An

Jason Walker

Jason Walker

Scott Yeskel

Joe Brubaker

Joe Brubaker

Need artist's name...

One of two huge incredibly commanding and detailed pieces by Ian Ingram

Robert Van Vranken

John Tarahteeff

Detail - John Tarahteeff

Mike Stilkey

Great photograph! - need artist's name....

Joan Brown

Eclectix Interview With Artist Annie Owens

A fantastic new piece by Annie, "Ten Yard Stare",  for her upcoming solo exhibition

From the Eclectix intro-
"Artist Annie Owens grew up and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent a fair amount of her childhood, watching classic horror movies with her musician brother. After receiving a degree in film and raising a daughter; she co-founded Hi-Fructose ( my personal fave art mag ) with her partner Attaboy, a superb artist as well. Both have shown and visited with Eclectix, in our brick and mortar days - their warm enthusiasm and support for newbrow art is always a welcome spark of hope.

Annie paints and draws girls, young women and crooked little houses in an achingly beautiful way. The blackest black of her ink work contrast nicely with a muted, pastel color palette. Her style is an unexpected and welcome mix of ...."

Just one of her many great sketch-studies.

For the entire interview and a gallery of Annie's art, CLICK HERE.

Another new piece , "Nevermore"

For info on her upcoming solo exhibit "Terribly Happy" in Los Angeles, this month, CLICK HERE.