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INKA ESSENHIGH
15 October - 14 November 2020 -
American Painter Inka Essenhigh’s Surrealist Scenes Offer a Very Enjoyable Distraction From the News—See Them Here
Escape from the stress of the day with these luscious, fantastical landscapes.Why it’s worth a look: Who couldn’t use a bit of escapism right now? In American painter Inka Essenhigh’s fantastical world, the goblinesque creatures and their environments seem to be lit from within, whether cast in the cool light of the predawn morning or in the deep burnt orange of a Chinese restaurant. With nods to surrealism and animation, Essenhigh’s landscapes are populated by characters from folklore and mythology, in some cases existing only as faceless shadows. At a time where the real world is filled with screaming headlines and endless stressors, Essenhigh’s magic garden offers a lovely, transporting respite.
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Inka Essenhigh
Orange Fall, 2020 Enamel on canvas
72 x 96 inches
182.9 x 243.8 cm -
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Inka Essenhigh
Blue Spruce, 2020 Enamel on canvas
50 x 80 inches
127 x 203.2 cm -
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Inka EssenhighThe Last Party, 2020Enamel on canvas24 x 24 inches
61 x 61 cm -
Inka EssenhighQueen Anne's Lace, 2020Enamel on canvas40 x 50 inches
101.6 x 127 cm -
Inka EssenhighThistle, 2019Enamel on canvas50 x 40 inches
127 x 101.6 cm -
Inka EssenhighPurple Pods, 2019Enamel on canvas34 x 32 inches
86.4 x 81.3 cm
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"Essenhigh's paintings take on the nuance of human ecology through hyperreal forms of nature and storybook fantasias that allude to the crisis of the everyday. Her works embrace the disorder and messiness found in life, and they often rearrange it into something disquietingly picturesque."
- Excerpt from "Inka Essenhigh's Uncanny Picturesque" by Jenni Sorkin
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INKA ESSENHIGH (b. in 1969 in Bellefonte, PA) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992 from Columbus College of Art & Design, and her Master of Fine Art in 1994 from School of Visual Arts.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Upcoming); “Other Worlds: Inka Essenhigh,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; “Uchronia,” Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Parallel Lines,” Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Inka Essenhigh: Manhattanhenge,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY; “A Fine Line,” Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Between Worlds,” Frist Center, Nashville, TN; “Stars and Flowers,” Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO; “Comet Dust & Crystal Shards,” Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY Columbus College of Art & Design, Joseph V. Canzani Center, Columbus, OH; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Pace Prints, New York, NY; 303 Gallery, New York, NY; Victoria Miro, London, United Kingdom; 303 Gallery, New York, NY; DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain; Sint-Lukasgalerie, Brussels, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Galleria il Capricorno,Venice, Italy; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Victoria Miro, London, United Kingdom; 303 Gallery, New York, NY, London, United Kingdom.
Her work may be found in numerous public collections, including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, FL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom; andWhitney Museum of American Art, NewYork,NY.
Inka Essenhigh lives and works in New York, NY.
