AGNO
07-05-2007, 01:05 PM
Modern Art----Inka Essenhigh
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/fig_essenhigh_may_06.jpg
Essenhigh’s canvases overtly celebrate their superficiality, enveloping humour, violence and chaos within their vapid allure. Essenhigh conceives her paintings as being quintessentially American, a brand of futurism that’s instantly and infinitely attractive
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Inka Essenhigh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inka_Essenhigh)
Selected Works
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/essenhigh/inka-essenhigh-supergod.jpg
supergod
Inka Essenhigh translates the subtle qualities of drawing into luxurious paintings. Resonating with exquisite draughtsmanship, Supergod is reminiscent of the design purity of the art deco era. Painting in oil and enamel, Inka Essenhigh uses the cool gloss effect of her media to create a sense of hyper-artificiality: her flat surface possesses a richness of synthetic colour, deceptive in illusion of depth and luminosity. Influenced by 19th century caricatures, oriental art and contemporary comics, Inka Essenhigh's paintings are both exotic and operatic: envisioning futuristic mythologies frozen in sublime moments of suspended animation
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/essenhigh/inka-essenhigh-shopping.jpg
shopping
I think about [my paintings] as being about America: fake, fun, pop, violent but also quite attractive," Inka Essenhigh explains. In Essenhigh's most recent work, images from suburbia convolute into grotesque dreamscapes; her pastoral scenes of normality belie their true nature as instances of alien horror. In Shopping, Inka Essenhigh readily captures the greed of a chav-land mall with cartoonist's exaggeration: shell-suited blonds undulate with flirtatious curvature, arms cum tentacles slither for bargain goods. In distorting the scene, Inka Essenhigh draws humorous caricature as well as a heightened sense of plasticity; the women resemble figurines in a themed setting, mannequins illustrating their own insincerity
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/essenhigh/inka_essenhigh_subway.jpg
subway
Inka Essenhigh paints Subway as a commuters’ opera. Her smooth surface and seamless paint replicates the sublime precision of urban life. Essenhigh’s corporate toned environment becomes a stage on which her strange and distorted figures conjoin in symphonic movement, leaving plastic trails in their haste as they swoon through the scene. Turning everyday banality into surreal case study, Essenhigh gives humorous portrayal of people at their rush hour worst. Drawing stylistic reference from both graphic novels and golden age animation, caricatured city-types gain comically heroic status, rendering a humble slice of America as grand theatrical drama.
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to be continued
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/fig_essenhigh_may_06.jpg
Essenhigh’s canvases overtly celebrate their superficiality, enveloping humour, violence and chaos within their vapid allure. Essenhigh conceives her paintings as being quintessentially American, a brand of futurism that’s instantly and infinitely attractive
http://www.artloversnewyork.com/images/2/2468.jpeg
Inka Essenhigh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inka_Essenhigh)
Selected Works
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/essenhigh/inka-essenhigh-supergod.jpg
supergod
Inka Essenhigh translates the subtle qualities of drawing into luxurious paintings. Resonating with exquisite draughtsmanship, Supergod is reminiscent of the design purity of the art deco era. Painting in oil and enamel, Inka Essenhigh uses the cool gloss effect of her media to create a sense of hyper-artificiality: her flat surface possesses a richness of synthetic colour, deceptive in illusion of depth and luminosity. Influenced by 19th century caricatures, oriental art and contemporary comics, Inka Essenhigh's paintings are both exotic and operatic: envisioning futuristic mythologies frozen in sublime moments of suspended animation
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/essenhigh/inka-essenhigh-shopping.jpg
shopping
I think about [my paintings] as being about America: fake, fun, pop, violent but also quite attractive," Inka Essenhigh explains. In Essenhigh's most recent work, images from suburbia convolute into grotesque dreamscapes; her pastoral scenes of normality belie their true nature as instances of alien horror. In Shopping, Inka Essenhigh readily captures the greed of a chav-land mall with cartoonist's exaggeration: shell-suited blonds undulate with flirtatious curvature, arms cum tentacles slither for bargain goods. In distorting the scene, Inka Essenhigh draws humorous caricature as well as a heightened sense of plasticity; the women resemble figurines in a themed setting, mannequins illustrating their own insincerity
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/essenhigh/inka_essenhigh_subway.jpg
subway
Inka Essenhigh paints Subway as a commuters’ opera. Her smooth surface and seamless paint replicates the sublime precision of urban life. Essenhigh’s corporate toned environment becomes a stage on which her strange and distorted figures conjoin in symphonic movement, leaving plastic trails in their haste as they swoon through the scene. Turning everyday banality into surreal case study, Essenhigh gives humorous portrayal of people at their rush hour worst. Drawing stylistic reference from both graphic novels and golden age animation, caricatured city-types gain comically heroic status, rendering a humble slice of America as grand theatrical drama.
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to be continued