What the gallery says: “As found throughout Surrealism and other modern avant-garde movements, Essenhigh’s paintings tend be uniquely episodic, while still sharing themes of flora and fauna. They are ...

Inka Essenhigh believes painting is a private matter. The American artist keeps two studios, one nestled in the woods of Maine, the other on the fifth floor of an old building in downtown Manhattan.

Inka Essenhigh, “Birdsongs” (2017), enamel on canvas, 42 x 40 inches, 106.7 x 101.6 cm (all images I am as guilty as any art writer of relying too often on the phrase, “blurring the lines between ...

Their beauty is undeniable, the fluidity of form and motion breathtaking. The paintings of Inka Essenhigh (MFA 1994 Fine Arts) resonate with overwhelming power and grace while possessing an ...

In the mid-1990s, art people swooned over Inka Essenhigh and her fantastic use of high-gloss enamel paints, touting her as an innovator who would help revitalize painting. The young artist had a ...

Inka Essenhigh, “Fairy Procession” (2015), oil and enamel on panel, 78 x 80 inches (courtesy of the artist) In conversation, Inka Essenhigh and Steve Mumford — who live together and work in adjoining ...

Victoria Miro is presenting a special exhibition celebrating the extraordinary artists who have shaped the gallery since its founding in 1985. Inka Essenhigh’s latest exhibition, “The Greenhouse,” at ...

It’s fitting that the young American artist Inka Essenhigh has a series of paintings called “People that do weird things to their bodies,” because the artist herself, who was born in Pennsylvania in ...

Artist Inka Essenhigh spent the early years of her career thinking that her fluid, feminine paintings were a no-no. As she painted graceful fairies, ghosts and woodland creatures that played in ...

On the mid-career work of Cecily Brown and Inka Essenhigh. Cecily Brown Selfie, 2020.(Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York) Critics are not required to be right, merely (as Donald Judd said of ...