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EXHIBITION:
EVE INGALLS DATES: MARCH 28-APRIL 22, 2006 RECEPTION: SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 5-7 PM |
ADDRESS: 511 West 25th Street, Suite 605, NYC 10001 HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday. 12 - 6 PM CONTACT: SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery: 212.367.8994 |
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SOHO20 CHELSEA Gallery presents Facts on the Ground: Recent Sculpture by Eve Ingalls, on view from March 28-April 22. In this new and highly innovative sculpture, Ingalls uses paper to express the fragility and vulnerability of the current 'state of affairs'. Her sculpture is charged with ironic humor and narrative twists and turns. In A 'Quick' History of the Western World, a tablecloth-like piece of handmade paper serves as a draped stage space. It is inhabited by a group of figures that simultaneously evoke ancient Greek philosophers engaged in dialogue, biblical prophets addressing believers, and soldiers preparing to charge. These three narrative strands confront each other, diverge, and rejoin to suggest that the implications of facts on the ground can be painfully clear as well as exceedingly elusive and complex.
Ingalls intends her sculpture to feel uncomfortable, as if it comes from another realm and is merely passing through the gallery on its way elsewhere. Wishful Filaments (a play on Freud's dreams of 'wish fulfillment') suggests an accordion book that is pried loose from the earth, stretched open, and held up to the sky by marionette wires. It forms a stairway that allows the thought of flight along a vertical axis. Empire on Course consists of four large topographic mappings, each of which appears to have been torn from the earth's surface and set in motion to hover and slide down the gallery walls. In this work, Ingalls reveals a renewed interest in drawing. Drawing is embedded in the layers of paper (one must also view these works from behind). Often the drawing has physical properties that shape the paper three-dimensionally as it dries. Empire on Course is a dialogue with Ed Ruscha's and Thomas Cole's Course of Empire. Here, as in all of Ingalls work, one is witness to unexpected swerves in the implied narrative. Ingalls is the loving shepherd of her wayward flock of narratives. All is not doomsday. These wayward narratives allow creative space in which to redirect the implications of facts on the ground. Ingalls will be one of three artists representing the United States at the Holland Paper Biennial 2006 held at the Coda Museum and the Museum Rijswijk, the Netherlands. In 2003 she exhibited in a two-person exhibition at the Schokland Museum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Netherlands. She has also exhibited throughout the United States including exhibitions at The Aldrich Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Bruce Museum, The New Britain Museum of Art, and The New Jersey State Museum. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Arts Magazine, Art and Antiques, Art New England, De Volkskrant, Beeldende Kunst, and De Courant Amsterdam. For further information or visuals, please contact the Soho20 Gallery at (212) 367- 8994, fax (212) 367-8984, or email soho20@verizon.net |
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