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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inka Essenhigh is an American artist born in 1969. She is known for her work in enamel and oil on canvas, exploring themes of mythology, landscape, and the urban versus pastoral. Essenhigh is ...

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 ...

Inka Essenhigh's earlier body of work fused a personal take on Surrealism with motifs that seem borrowed from animation. Works such as "Mob + Minotaur" (2002), with such strong anime and manga ...

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 ...

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 ...