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Inka Essenhigh — Bloodsucker
Inka Essenhigh

Bloodsucker

"Bloodsucker" by Inka Essenhigh is a striking oil and enamel on canvas work that showcases the artist's signature style of fluid, sinuous forms rendered in vivid, otherworldly color. The enamel medium lends the surface a glossy, almost liquid sheen, amplifying the unsettling yet seductive tension of the predatory subject matter. Essenhigh's biomorphic figures blur the boundary between the organic and the fantastical, drawing the viewer into a dreamlike narrative charged with dark energy.

Medium
oil and enamel on canvas

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Under the Influence

September 19, 2013

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Inka Essenhigh, Bloodsucker

"Bloodsucker" by Inka Essenhigh is a striking oil and enamel on canvas work that showcases the artist's signature style of fluid, sinuous forms rendered in vivid, otherworldly color. The enamel medium lends the surface a glossy, almost liquid sheen, amplifying the unsettling yet seductive tension of the predatory subject matter. Essenhigh's biomorphic figures blur the boundary between the organic and the fantastical, drawing the viewer into a dreamlike narrative charged with dark energy.

Medium
oil and enamel on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Dark, Bold, American, Red, Expressive, Visceral, Abstract, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary

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