Tag: fantasy

Inka Essenhigh at Miles McEnery Gallery

Inspired by a multitude of sources from Dali to Disney, Inka Essenhigh continues to craft fantastical scenarios as intriguing as they are bizarre.  Here, a curvy female figure (seemingly crafted from a single orange/green material from her hair to her off-kilter shoes) primps in front of a shattered mirror that reflects a monster-like apparition.  Are we seeing reality?  Will she continue to transform before our eyes?  Essenhigh’s rich stories leave us wanting more.  (On view at Miles McEnery Gallery on 22nd Street in Chelsea through Nov 14th).

Inka Essenhigh, Forever Young, enamel on canvas, 60 x 42 inches, 2020.

Jeffrey Beebe at Bravin Lee Programs

In Jeffrey Beebe’s richly imagined worlds, he pits ‘the Uncles’ – leaders of the Rover clans – against the ‘Red Soil Boys’ – a bellicose neighboring group who initiated an attack that wiped out many Uncles. In this detail from a grid of lost Uncles, Beebe introduces one of his fantastical creatures – a 21 ft long giant whose horn ‘improved both echolocation and moral indignation.’ (At Bravin Lee Programs in Chelsea through Oct 15th).

Uncles Exterminated During the Tyranny of Manifest Fairnesses, ink, watercolor, gouache on paper, 45 x 72 inches, 2016.
Jeffrey Beebe, detail from ‘Uncles Exterminated During the Tyranny of Manifest Fairnesses,’ ink, watercolor, gouache on paper, 45 x 72 inches, 2016.