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It’s Coming! Those Nightmares Before Xmas…
“Famine” by Dan Harding You had to know Eclectix couldn’t let Halloween get by without partaking in the witch’s brew of all the wonderful dark and bloody art out there. We decided to start the...
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Eclectix Issue No.5, Nightmares Before Xmas
Dan Harding Our fantastic fantasy exhibit of the best of all the “dark art” out there. Need labels? How about – scary, creepy, Halloween, evil, and goth. Chock full of scary monsters and super freaks,...
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Foto Fix: Beheaded by Phil Poynter
From Phil comes a fun digital work of a cool, calm and collected model beheading herself. His site is mostly fashion photography, the coolest series being his Vogue Italia Flea Market. Wish there were...
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Grateful for Pamela Wilson’s Grim Fairy Tales
Stumbled upon these gems on FaceBook and was so happy to have discovered Pamela Wilson’s works. Gruesome girls, strong pirate wenches in petticoats, mothers gone bad, heroic women and alienated...
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True Goth Art, Kevin Llewellyn
If you have ever watched LA Ink and noticed that killer painting (and frame) in the background of the tattoo shop (like I did), it is The Virgin Mary by Kevin (above). At first glance I mistakenly...
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A Look/See at Congregation Gallery, Los Angeles
Swooped thru Congregation Gallery on our LA trip in March to take a peek. This gallery is located in Forgotten Saints on Melrose Ave. – the gallery and tattoo space is in the back but there is art...
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Nick Kushner’s Art Party Opening Tomorrow Night in LA
New York based artist Nick Kushner will be hanged at Los Angeles Studio Servitú on Saturday, Sept. 10th. ‘Les Crimes De L’Amour’ marks Kushner’s first solo exhibition displaying his signature works...
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Dan Harding, Eclectix Interview 23
A New Jersey based artist, Dan Harding’s art is scary, gooey and magnificent in all it’s gory details. The flesh on his creatures melt and drip down their skeleton armature, while bones jut sharp...
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Karyn Crisis, Eclectix Interview 24
Eclectix first became aqquainted with Karyn a couple of years ago, when she came into the gallery, hair swinging, toting some killer leather works – gothic purses and cuffs. They were obviously...
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Seth Siro Anton’s Beautiful Nightmares
Seth is an artist from Athens, Greece and he covers all the bases in art – creating works from paintings, sculptures and digital photography – as well as music with his metal band Septic Flesh. His...
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Edward Walton Wilcox, Eclectix Interview 25
Edward’s art is a spiritual experience, imagery with such luminous light and aura to it that it refuses to be captured in a photograph. His colors are sepias, ambers and the warmest golds of...
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Laurie Lipton, Eclectix Interview 27
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, London and most recently – Los Angeles, California. She creates...
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Featured Artist: Mateusz Niedbal
Mateusz’s works take us to the darker side – post apocalyptic wastelands and futuristic nightmares. A Polish artist, he works in photo-collage with mostly sepia, or black and white tones. They are...
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Dark Art: A Tribute to Metal
Dark Art: A Tribute to Metal, Group Show Opening Reception: Saturday August 11, 2012, 6-10 pm Exhibition Dates: August 11- September 9, 2012 Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11a – 7pm © Cayetano G....
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ZeroFriends: Incredible Art, Incredible Deals
Robert Bowen Yesterday, we visited ZeroFriends Gallery and wanted to share this great place with incrdedible deals, on even more incredible art. Located in Oakland, ZeroFriends is a new-ish gallery...
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The Great Gloom of Anton Semenov
Our eyes are grateful for the great gloom of Anton Semenov projected in his fierce art. Anton’s alias name is Gloom82 and his portfolio is quite full of impending doom and gorgeous gloom. Wonderfully...
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The Dangerous Girls of Kate Zambrano
Kate Zambrano paints pretty pictures of pretty models with pretty intense attitudes. Staring you down, giving you the evil eye or just that “come hither” look – smoldering with dare and rebellion....
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Natalia Smirnova, Eclectix Interview 43
The artist Natalia Smirnova (above) works as if from another era, her art harkens back to mysterious and fabled tales of medieval manuscripts. They would do Dante’s Inferno proud or even illustrate...
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The Eyes of Alessandra Maria
Alessandra Maria is a young artist and there isn’t a whole lot on her website. But what is there – is beautifully haunting and seems to be progressing in a fabulous direction. Alessandra describes...
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BookNook: Odd Nerdrum, Crime and Refuge
Odd Nerdrum: Crime and Refuge During our summer travels, browsing in a bookstore – we came across this magnificent new art book- Odd Nerdrum, Crime and Refuge. One of those art books you can’t stop...
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The Vintage Macabre of Santiago Caruso
Featured Artist: Santiago Caruso The vintage macabre of Santiago Caruso is a mix of surreal, dark, symbolist works painted with the nineteenth century’s aesthetic. They are beautiful paintings,...
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The Apparitions of Stephan Balleux
Featured Artist: Stephan Balleux When we stumbled on the paint smeared faces of Stephan Balleux, we couldn’t take our eyes off them. Abstracted areas of portraits, features replaced by gobs and...
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The Apocalypse of Dariusz Zawadzki
Featured Artist: Dariusz Zawadzki A Polish artist, Dariusz Zawadzki (also known as Yogoro Artworks), is self taught. His works are dark fantasy, almost a tribal science fiction or an apocalyptic...
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Book Nook: Alice Leora Briggs Dreamland
Book Nook: Alice Leora Briggs, Dreamland Art Written by Charles Bowden with art and illustrations by Alice Leora Briggs, Dreamland: The Way out of Juárez. is a dark and moving treatise on the...
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The Royal Street Galleries in New Orleans
Cool Art Stops on Royal Street If you find yourself looking for cool contemporary art in New Orleans, then Royal Street in the French Quarter is the place for you. This is a really fun street to...
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Bex Freund: One Week Only
One Week Only, Exhibition News Bex Freund has a solo exhibition coming up, for one week only in SF, that is not to be missed. The Bottled Nova Must Feed Still show opens at Alter Space on March 1st...
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Book Release Party At The Brand New Morbid Anatomy Museum
The new Morbid Anatomy Museum opens this weekend with a book release party on Saturday, April 26th. For seven years, Morbid Anatomy has seen thousands of visitors, both online and in their 300 square...
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H R Giger Meets His Maker
R.I.P. – The Death of H R Giger H. R. Giger ( Hans Rudolf “Ruedi” Giger ) the infamous godfather of so much of today’s contemporary art and graphic styles, died Monday from injuries sustained in a...
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Exhibit Preview: The Sacred Feminine of Jasmine Worth
Exhibit Preview: Jasmine Worth, The Sacred Feminine Jasmine Worth has a solo show of new work opening on Friday, comprised of her wonderfully moody female saints, entitled “Sacred Feminine.” Worth...
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The Oddities of Alicia Martin Lopez
Featured Artist: Alicia Martin Lopez Alicia Martin Lopez oddities are like mutated creatures from a science fiction novel, alien beings creeping forth from her dark imagination. Cast against empty...
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Discovering the Dreams of Arthur Tress
Foto Fix: Arthur Tress Every now and then there is an artist that everyone else knows about – yet we have just discovered – and Arthur Tress is one of these. Although individual images have hooked our...
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The Skull Shells of Gregory Raymond Halili
The skull shells of Gregory Raymond Halili are just that – gorgeous, luminous, anatomically perfect human skulls carved and painted onto small shells. He uses oil paint on raw, gold-lip and black-lip...
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New Eclectix Magazine In Print
We are excited to announce that Volume One of Eclectix is now available! At long last we finally put the finishing touches on this inaugural issue – full of tons of beautiful luscious artworks,...
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The Otherworldly Beings of Daria Endresen
Featured Artist: Daria Endresen A photographer, model and digital artist, Daria Endresen was born in Norway and currently lives in Paris. Daria’s mesmerizing subjects are otherworldly – resembling...
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Artitechture: Haunted Hamamatsu Apartments
Not Just Architecture, But Artitechture This isn’t a Tim Burton movie set, it’s a new apartment building opening in Hamamatsu, Japan. Designed to look and feel like witch houses – with crooked...
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Bonnie Gloris Between Worlds
Featured Artist: Bonnie Gloris Between Worlds We were enchanted by the series of dreamlike pieces titled Between Worlds by Bonnie. They flow, drip and elude to transformation with a moody, almost...
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Storm Tharp
Featured Artist: Storm Tharp Oregonian Storm Tharp’s portraits are strange emotive character studies, often distorted and obscured to the verge of being expressionist. Starting out as...
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The Bell Jars of Danny Van Ryswyk
Featured Artist: Danny van Ryswyk Danny van Ryswyk works digitally, producing prints and 3D sculptures of moody and contemplative characters, often within dark themes and settings. While his older...
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Adam Crawford, Strange Figurations
Featured Halloween Artist: Adam Crawford Adam Crawford is a Philadelphia based artist. We love his strange figurations, smudged faces of creepy, moody creatures – distorted and erupting, with some...
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Christopher Shy, Gothic Lovliness
Featured Artist: Christopher Shy Shy’s artwork has a dreamlike quality full of gothic loveliness – blurred symbolism and tempered violence with veiled details in a dark, smoky palette. Vintage...
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The Villa of Ormen
Art On The Web It’s not often that I go to a Tumblr site and just can’t pull away. However, the well curated site - The Villa of Ormen - did just that, pulled me in for an extended darkly fantastic...
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The Digital Magic of David Seidman
Featured Artist: David Seidman We don’t feature a lot of digital art here at Eclectix, but when we do it’s full of original creativity and imagination that cannot be denied. David Seidman’s art is...
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Artitechture: The Giger Bar
Artitechture = Art & Architecture The Giger Bar For all you Giger fanatics out there (and we know there are a lot of you…), a visit and drink at one of the “Alen Bars” created by artist H.R. Giger...
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