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The Fantasy Animals of Ewa Pronczuk-Kuziak

The Still Life Series by Ewa Pronczuk-Kuziak Fine artist Ewa Pronczuk-Kuziak hails from Warsaw, Poland and paints a magical world full of candy colored critters in the process of transforming or morphing. The surreal metamorphosis of animals and young women dominate her imagery, with super saturated colors coloring her anthropomorphic fantasies. Exploding, unraveling and loosely tied with…

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Artitecture: The Organic Homes of Sunray Kelley

Artitechture = Art & Architecture Sunray Kelly The architecture of Sunray Kelly is Inspired by nature, resembling magical tree houses which might be inhabited by elves. Using round hobbit-like shapes provided by Mother Earth, he incorporates whole tree trunks, branches and found logs as framework, hunting the forests of his home in the Pacific Northwest for the perfect additions. Moss covers…

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The Surreal Art and Graphics of Yann Nguema

Yann Nguema, is a founding member and bass player for the band EZ3kiel. He also holds a M.A. in Fine Art is in charge of all the artwork for the band. He creates EZ3kiel‘s visual features, particularly for their touring shows, but he is also well known for his various commissioned works (Turin Olympic Games, French Ski Federation, Rennes Transmusicales’ Rencontres-i communication tools).These…

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The Intimate Parade of Nathan Spoor

Over the years we have followed Nathan Spoor’s fantastic work with relish. We had to revisit and share some highlights from his personal series of ongoing works entitled ‘The Intimate Parade’, an open ended series begun in 2002. These are beautifully dreamy, and symbolic works – enveloping the classic surrealist style within a modern and intimate context. Spoor has penned the term –…

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Phyllis Galembo & West African Masquerade

Foto Fix: Phyllis Galembo Photographer Phyllis Galembo has made over twenty trips to places of masquerade in Africa and the Caribbean, to document their theatrical adornments in cultural and religious performances. Her impressive works depict the characters, costumes, and rituals of African practices and their diasporic manifestations. These are fantastic works of art, meticulously woven and…

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The Visionary Art of Tuco Amalfi

Visionary Art: Tuco Amalfi We fell in love with the visionary art of Tuco Amalfi – dreamlike and full of psychedelic light, bursting with vibrant colors. It sends us into spiritual oblivion with lovely hallucinations – spirals of geometric patterns cast themselves onto cerebral landscapes. Art which transcends the physical world and portrays a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or…

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The Wonderland of Kirsty Mitchell's Photography

The Wonderland of Kirsty Mitchell’s Photography

Kirsty Mitchell’s photography is an ethereal wonderland of lush fairy tales and historical dress, set in beautiful woodlands and inspired by her memories of her mother reading aloud to her. She has worked with Alexander McQueen’s studio and studied costume design at the London College of Fashion. After her mother’s death, Kirsty immersed herself in photography to deal with the trauma of grief.…

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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 is definitely on your travel menu. There are two Alien Bars – one in in Gruyères, Switzerland and one in Chur, Switzerland. And we can’t imagine that a more artful surreal place to have a cocktail…

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Passion for Frida In Oakland

Exhibition Review The Passion for Frida exhibition opened last Saturday to a super packed house in the beautiful and bright new Oakland space – known as Sanchez Contemporary. We love and obsess over all things Frida Kahlo and the amount of dynamic, passionate and inspired imagery honoring Frida in this show are terrific. We’ve selected a few of our favorite artworks here – this is definitely…

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Installation: The Clouds of Kohei Nawa

Featured Artist: Kohei Nawa Japanese artist Kohei Nawa has created a surreal and magical installation titled “Foam”, full of floating clouds in the middle of darkened rooms. Impossibly lovely, they conjure up a nebulous heaven – and like an angel, the viewer can walk through them. The “clouds” are actually piles of soapy bubbles, creating a foam landscape. Nawa spent weeks mixing up various…

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Monica Tiulescu's Species Works

Monica Tiulescu’s Species Works

Featured Artist – Monica Tiulescu Monica Tiulescu series ‘Species Work’ is contradictory, multi-leveled work – referencing the past and the future, micro and macro, flat and 3 dimensional. Micro-assemblages that are simultaneously grown computationally and composited materially. “The series embodies a sense of constructing, of architecture as opposed to a more direct expression through…

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Rebecca Szeto's Paintbrush People

Rebecca Szeto’s Paintbrush People

Featured Artist: Rebecca Szeto Recycling old paintbrushes into iconic portraiture, Rebecca Szeto has found a wonderful niche for her artworks. After all, don’t we all hate throwing away our well loved paintbrushes? And they all end up with their own character and personality, just like people. I love the crude and sometimes crusty buildup on the garments where the paint has dried up, time…

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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 all that and more – a feast of dark and pop surrealism which inspire beautiful meanderings of the eye. His marriage of all the techniques modern-day technology and old school classicism have to…

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The Surreal Worlds of CT Nelson

Featured Artist : CT Nelson Painter CT Nelson creates fantastic surreal worlds, partly abstracted and partly illustrative – with his more recent works leaning towards less definitive imagery. Channeling visions of science fiction, historical events, trippy hallucinations and vortex swirling motions of weather patterns – his paintings mesmerize and pull you in. They are phantasmagorical…

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That Cinderella Dress by Zac Posen

Fierce Fashion: Zac Posen Fashion designer Zac Posen stepped it up a quite few notches with his incredible Cinderella ball gown. He created it for Claire Danes to wear to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala 2016, last night. This year’s theme was “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.” In daylight the dress was just your average awe inspiring drop dead…

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Foto Fix: A Micro Odyssey With Marco Castelli

We Get Our Foto Fix: Marco Castelli Marco Castelli is a fine art photographer living in Florence, Italy. His otherworldly studies of the growths in petri dishes are like little planets floating against a starry sky. Aptly titled – “A Micro Odyssey” – they are gorgeous and enchanting galaxies in black and white. Such a simple concept and idea has rendered remarkably complex visuals. Each image is…

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AJ Frena's Wild

AJ Frena’s Wild

AJ Frena AJ Frena’s art is a wild kingdom of animals and humanity, a tumultuous and invigorating realm. Detailed and concisely rendered in both tooth and nail, his imagery is composed with a keen sense of design, empathy and admiration of the animal in us all. “I try to be careful not to romanticize nature in my art, as I’m of the belief that the difference between animals and us is the…

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