Eve Ingalls "Riding the Tectonic Plates"
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
This event has ended.
Ingalls confronts the raw canvas as she would the surface of an archaeological dig; drawing marks are her tools. The drawings were begun long ago, abandoned, and then completed in 2009. This long hiatus is directly related to the archaeological theme; the dig is reopened and new layers are allowed to appear. Ingalls says; “Meaning expands as we ride the tectonic plates. The past is shifting beneath us, and science is uncovering new tools to extend our knowledge.”
Ingalls’ mark-making refers to devices (charts, graphs, maps, and drawings of scientific models) used by humans to understand processes that our perceptual apparatus is unable to access directly. Marks burrow into the grid of the canvas weave, pulling forth shards trapped in the ongoing action of physical and geological forces. The shard implies the presence of ancient horizons buried deep underground. How do these ancient horizons relate to our own? The dig is a metaphor for the difficulty of understanding what we probe.
An unusual landscape confronts us in Ingalls’ work. We experience the energy of natural forces caused not by rivers, mountains, and trees, but by streams of arrows, rocky shards, and graphs shaped like mountains. Her surfaces uncover events built of the very tools that we use to understand the events.
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Schedule
from March 31, 2009 to April 25, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-04-02 from 17:00 to 19:00