Eclectix Arts: pop surrealism

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Friday, September 20, 2019

Eclectix Artist Interviews, Now On Medium

Hello dear art lovers, it's been awhile...

I've finally gotten around to uploading the Eclectix artist interviews from the bygone Eclectix website! Just finished with #48 - the dark and lovely artist Jasmine Worth...

Hope to finish transferring them all soon, as well as a few selected articles of merit from the old site.

So if you've been wishin' and hopin' to see these arty tidbits from the past, they are now on Medium, under the Eclectix Art profile.

Link to Eclectix on Medium.

Apologies for letting these gems languish in the internet vacuum for so long... enjoy the read now that they have been reincarnated! :)

And please check back to read the new ones...

Thursday, January 3, 2013

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

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Thomas Woodruff Makes Us Swoon

If you are lucky enough to find yourself anywhere near New York City in the next few weeks.... then you owe it to your eyes to get over to PPOW Gallery for their current show-

The Four Temperament Variations - Thomas Woodruff

Exhibition runs Jan 5 - Feb 4, 2012

Thomas's works just make us weak in the knees with their incredible poetic beauty. They are icons of anthropomorphic cross-dressers, adornments to our earthly kingdoms. With more than 24 paintings by Thomas in this solo show, it is sure to gratify and satisfy every heart aching for original inspirations.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Last Rites Double Header

Shelf Life by Tin

Last Rites Gallery in New York has two great shows opening this weekend. Previously we posted about Laurie Lipton's "Carnival of Death" and Tin's exhibition is titled "The Internal Clock". Both of the artists have beautiful and interesting perspectives to share. A promising no-brainer for a festive start to our favorite month of October, if you are lucky enough to be in NYC!

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 1st, 7:00pm-11:00pm.
Show runs Oct 1st thru 23rd, 2011

LINK

Reunion by Laurie Lipton

Friday, August 5, 2011

"Illusions of Grandeur" Opening at 111 Minna Gallery

Lee Harvey Roswell

Eclectix was so happy to feast our eyes at Minna's opening last night of "Illusions of Grandeur" - Paintings Reflecting the Imaginations of: NoMe Edonna and Lee Harvey Roswell.

This is a really stupendous show - full of surreal symbolism, Dali influences, drugged hallucinations, wry humor and tons of original artistic imaginings. One of the best Bay Area best shows we have viewed in a while. Both artists reflect and complement each other, playing off shapes and themes to engage the viewer, letting us wander inside their heads for peeks at twisted, sensual and funny subjects.

Lee Harvey Roswell's works (below) tell stories wit a narrative flow with humorous titles and details. He is obviously a huge fan of Salvador Dali and does skilled homage to the master in a number of paintings. The imagination and vision succeeds in each piece- wowing the viewer without being trite or pretentious.

Lee Harvey Roswell

Detail- Lee Harvey Roswell

Lee Harvey Roswell

Detail- Lee Harvey Roswell

Lee Harvey Roswell

Spoon toes, detail from previous - Lee Harvey Roswell

Lee Harvey Roswell

NoMe Edonna's works ( all below ) - while having surreal elements, tend to lean towards more abstraction or straight ahead portraits and rendering. He plays with shapes and geometrics, folding and molding them into visual trips thru his brain. Sometimes beautifully graceful, other times hard edged and confrontational.

Detail - NoMe Edonna

NoMe Edonna

Loved this triptych! - NoMe Edonna

NoMe Edonna

For a previous Eclectix post of Lee's works at ArtPads click here.

For a beautiful art book "Further" with some of NoMe's works, click here.

Get out to SF and 111 Minna Gallery to see this fantastic show, it's up through August 27th, 2011.

Friday, July 1, 2011

New Work Updates: Aunia Kahn

Nearby Words of Aporia

Aunia Kahn

Friday, May 27, 2011

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!