![]() ![]() ![]() He’s a total original, which is why I knew I wanted to work with him.” said UK gallerist, David Gill.īarnaby draws a portrait of our contemporary lives with an ironic choice of medium. “Barnaby is not just a sculptor, not just an artist. Porcelain, earthenware, enamel paint, painted wooden base, other media. Included in the exhibition is a more recent piece from the artist’s latest acclaimed show, Seven Deadly Sins at David Gill Galleries Ltd (London), and a 2008 short animated film Damaged Goods a tragic love story played out by porcelain figurines commissioned by Animate Projects, a non-profit organization in the UK dedicated to supporting experiments in animation This will be Barford’s first solo exhibition in the US and will feature 30 sculptural works which explore and celebrate the human condition, usually with a sinister or sardonic theme. Generous grants were provided by the City of Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Business Consortium for Arts Support.(VIRGINIA BEACH, VA) June 26, 2013 - The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) will host UK artist Barnaby Barford, September 12 - December 29, 2013, known for his work with antique or mass-produced porcelain figures, which he recombines and reassembles into narrative sculpture. With lead support for the Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation. Organized by the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. The public collections that hold her work include the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art/ MoMA, New York, NY Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Tate Gallery, London, England Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA the Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. She is represented by Victoria Miro Gallery in London, and Miles McEnery in New York. Inka Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio (1991) and the School of Visual Arts in New York (1992-1994). Her evolution led her back into traditional oils and experiments in printmaking. She gained early renown through her use of enamels and a process that included the use of automatic drawing to find her subject matter. This exhibition will present 25-30 works from the range of mediums that the artist has explored. The full expression of a 21st century human hope, anxiety, and everything in between. Each painting and print is a moment of distilled vision and the emotions that accompany them. They are the forces that shape her world. ![]() Ghosts and gods, monsters and maenads edge their way onto her picture plane. Both settings find their way into the artist's consciousness, becoming manifest in allegory. Essenhigh spends time both in New York City and rural Maine. The narratives find inspiration from her environs. They are fantastic visions rooted in the quotidian. Her elegant line defines space, rejecting the straight and embracing the curvy, the organic. An old cemetery emerges from a hazy gloom.Įach scene is vastly different, yet they all clearly belong to Essenhigh. Anthropomorphic condominiums break from their moorings. A yellow beanstalk makes a frenzied vertical climb, snagging a golden crown with blue jewel as it grows. Swirls of light lead us up to a heavenly night sky. Her signature use of line follows her experimentation, keeping them grounded and giving them continuity. It is through this approach that Essenhigh’s dazzling works are borne. Throughout each phase of experimentation, she created dialogues with her work, navigating how the media and brush interact, sometimes with genuine surprise at the result. Her substrates have included paper, canvas, and panels. She has moved from using enamel paint to traditional oils and back creating hybrids of the two. Since her emergence into the art world during the late 1990’s, she has created a path for herself that consistently questions and redefines her relationship with her media. Through her painting, Inka Essenhigh provides an authentic voice. ![]()
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