Love Rabbit Art? A Twisted Spring In Your Step? The INLE Show Is For You...

The INLE Exhibit at 1988 Gallery (Melrose Ave.) in L.A. is one of the best art events going on right now. It is a show based on the novel "Watership Down" and the anti-hero, a rabbit named "Inle". There are over a hundred works in this show, cannot begin to name all the fantastic artists here - most familiar and some not. The walls are stacked salon style - spend at least an hour if not two, let your eyes feast on the candy. Check the gallery's site for all the artist's names, please. You will be astonished at the caliber of work in this show. The show is curated very well by Greg Simkins (who also has a killer piece in the show.) Even with the huge amount of wonderful art and eclectic styles and medias - there are only a few I personally wouldn't have hung. This is saying a lot, folks! All the art is online here .
You can see it in person, highly recommended,  thru April 8th - don't miss this one! A great spring thing to do with friends and a phenomenal selection of originals to select from, for your own walls.

Eclectix Picks: New Monograph From Marion Peck

From Porterhouse Fine Art Editions -
"Marion Peck: Animal Love Summer Special Edition Book"
This special edition of Marion Peck’s first full monograph features 118 of Marion’s finest paintings from 1993 to 2010. Each signed and numbered special edition book includes a signed and numbered print displayed in a beautifully embossed paper frame, different cover art and binding, and comes in a handmade, clothbound clamshell box.
You can flip thru all the pages here. Click on the pink button, "Detail Views"... beautiful classy design from Porterhouse, beautiful images from Marion...

Best Dressed at the Grammy's 2011, The Artistic Ones

Foto: Pumpsicle

It's been awhile since a fashion-related post and there is nothing like a new dress from Jean-Paul Gaultier to get me going. After looking at all the boring "best dressed" picks, I decided Eclectix had to have a say! The look this year (and every year) seems to be the Vegas-hooker-meets-boring-sequins or the cheap-tart-animal-print. Thankfully, there was the streamlined, ruffled and peek-a-boo masterpiece that Rihanna wore. It was just simply a work of art. I would love to have seen Rihanna sport the black hair and cut from Uma in Pulp Fiction with this dress, for some reason the red hair just didn't work that well.
Then to top it off, out she came out in a fantastic Christian Dior dress for her performance with Eminem. Both dresses were and are- wearable art, beautiful breathtaking masterpieces and cutting that needed edge.

Foto: BeautyIsDiverse

Runway fotos

Also sporting some very cute and stylish dresses were Hayley Williams from Paramore and actress Pauley Perrette. Both had a rocker, 1960's kinda' flair, upbeat festive little party dresses, no pretense or sleaze, just fun and pretty.

Hayley Williams, Foto: JustJared
Once again. I would like to have seen a hair color change here for Hayley (above). Just imagine her hair (and lipstick) matching that hot pink neon of her feather skirt!

Just loved the musical embellishments on Pauley's hot lime green. Her hair was done up in a great retro do as well, enhancing that elfish expression in a sweet n' sassy way.


Other Grammy Notes:
The Lady Gaga egg was fun but her "new" song was so much like Madonna's "Express Yourself"  that I was very disappointed. Was so looking forward to a great NEW song by the GaGa. Congrats to Eminem for the well deserved win on his Recovery album, just please, stop the silly sagging already! And we know you have a great vocabulary, just use it more! Trash some of those over-abused cuss words and step it up a notch.