Annie Lapin at Miles McEnery Gallery

LA artist Annie Lapin conjures images from accidents, pouring a charcoal water solution over a prepared surface and embellishing the results with analogue and digitally created effects that she transcribes to canvas.  In ‘Defenestration,’ a few deft additions to the central shape turns a stain into an escaping figure hightailing it out of a raw linen canvas.  A metaphor for emerging artistic creativity?  (On view at Miles McEnery Gallery in Chelsea through Nov 10th).

Annie Lapin, Defenestration, charcoal, acrylic, flocking and vinyl paint on linen, 30 x 26 x 3 inches, 2018.

Inka Essenhigh at Miles McEnery Gallery

A Christmas cactus tangos with a dramatically dark black tulip in the foreground of Inka Essenhigh’s ‘Party of the Flames and Flowers,’ a standout painting in the artist’s solo show at Miles McEnery Gallery in Chelsea.  Personified flowers compete to show off their beauty in an intriguing venue that mysteriously appears to be undersea. (On view through May 25th).

Inka Essenhigh, Party of the Flames and Flowers, enamel on canvas, 48 x 55 inches, 2017.