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Artist Profile: Inka Essenhigh’s Distortion
Inka Essenhigh “just does what looks good” – something that must be intuitive, born from experience, with such odd subject matter. Born in Pennsylvania, working in New York- Inka Essenhigh graduated in the early nineties and became known for oil and enamel. She is developing a rich world of surreal characters and rich imagery.
A trait of her early work is simple colours with monochromatic backgrounds, slick, hard, and graphic. She has a background in design, as well as a sense of humour. Both show in her work.
Inka Essenhigh: Bathroom
Her use of figures are distorted and mixed with animal or mechanical parts, headless and yet mundane. There is also a lot of marine imagery, and narrative-suggesting backgrounds.
Inka Essenhigh: Minor Sea Gods of Maine
Her works ‘mimic the future’ so there’s a sci-fi futuristic element, with anime qualities and hard black outlines. Some of her images can be hard to decipher. She is unconcerned with convention in some ways yet references surrealism- dis-ease, disturbing, hard edges and dreamlike mishmash.
She also uses a lot of dischords in her palette- yellow with close tones, lighter blues.
She has a background in automatic drawing and is rightly considered to be an expert drawer: she uses a lot of great line qualities, and blends the real with the fiction seamlessly. Her work can be described as ‘pop surrealism.’
Her work is illustrative and fantastical even as it evolves: she adds softer edges and more painterly qualities, tonality; moving towards a more renaissance feel. Check out her website, because her chronological image gallery is interesting documentation of the evolution of an excellent artist.