Summary
Show Girls and the accompanying image, Daedalus and Icarus 2000 (Tate P78510), represent Essenhigh's second foray into printmaking (her first was the previous year). They are ten-colour silkscreen prints on Somerset velvet paper, coated with acrylic varnish after printing to create a high gloss finish. This gloss surface is consistent with Essenhigh's paintings on canvas using enamel-based oil paint, such as Born Again 1999-2000 (Tate T07702). Her techniques for making both prints and paintings result in a shiny vinyl effect, a far remove from their highly textured basic materials of paper and canvas. The two prints complement each other, although they are individual works and may be displayed separately. The characters they depict are similar in style to those appearing in Essenhigh's paintings, although the prints are much smaller in format. They were printed at Noblet Serigraphie, New York in an edition of forty, of which these are numbers five, and published by Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York… (read more)
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