Inka Essenhigh "Green Goddess I" 2009
I had to wipe the drool from my mouth the first time I read this description of Inka Essenhigh's show opening on the 23rd at 303 Gallery here in NYC:
303 Gallery is pleased to present our third exhibition of new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. The artist’s latest body of work touches on notions proffered by 18th century Romanticist William Blake, who wrote, “Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
The ostensible subject of the paintings is landscape, the natural world. The paintings’ lush backdrops (most directly drawn from her studio in coastal Maine) are rendered almost 3-dimensionally, bathed in a celestial light that gives the scenarios a hazy, hypnagogic quality. Yet the work is imbued with a sense of the hidden spirits revealed by profound communion with one’s surroundings. Anthropomorphic figures drift in and out of perception, as Essenhigh creates visionary epsiodes of realization and engagement with the spirit world...
Can't wait to see these in person. Show's up until February 20th, so you should go, too.
(Thanks, Mom!)
Isn't Inka Essenhigh's work great? I like her newer deep rendered style, and the flat looking stuff was pretty great to begin with. She managed to keep and even enhance the dynamism.
Posted by: Charles Vincent | January 24, 2010 at 05:39 PM
i went to the show yesterday and it was so amazing highly highly recommended pictures of course don't do justice
Posted by: sean hudson | February 06, 2010 at 01:49 PM