Sermin Ciddi, Old Town Alexandria in the Fall (Contemporary Miniature)īana Kattan is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). Nonyelum Ekwempu, Quarantine Diary Series: Home Alone Virginia MOCA would like to thank Bana Kattan for sharing her time and talent in the realization of Made in VA and congratulate all the artists.ĬONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR'S AWARD WINNERS! This year's Juror Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), selected the work of 31 artists out of the 532 who applied this year, showcasing the diversity of materials and approaches found in contemporary art. Virginia MOCA wants to provide artists opportunities and share their voice and their vision with our visitors. We invite the talented contemporary artists found in the Commonwealth to continue this momentum. The exhibition reasserted our commitment to Virginia artists. We remain committed to keeping close ties with the talented artists who live close to our doors. We find our roots in a concerned and connected artist community. 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 MOCA continues its celebration of regional artists through our annual juried exhibition, Made in VA, now in its 27th year. 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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