Inka Essenhigh (b. 1969)
Inka Essenhigh (b. 1969)

Yellow Turkeys

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Inka Essenhigh (b. 1969)
Yellow Turkeys
signed, titled and dated 'Inka Essenhigh "Yellow turkeys" 1997' (on the reverse)
oil enamel on canvas
31½ x 35½ in. (80 x 90.1 cm.)
Painted in 1997.
Provenance
Stux Gallery, New York

Lot Essay

The "cyborg mutations" are supernatural beings, but Essenhigh makes them accessible to the viewer by giving them familiar names; Yellow Turkey, Thieves or Sunspots. They are violent explosions in contrast to the uneventful background following the tradition of the earliest biomorphs created by Arp, Matta or Tanguy in a surrealist dream.

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