Eve Ingalls “The Drawing May No Longer Be Accurate”

Soho20 Chelsea Gallery

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Eve Ingalls’ new work is a powerful investigation of ways in which climate change driven by human activity is assaulting natural and cultural boundaries as we know them. This series was prompted by warnings printed on maps of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, stating that the boundaries as depicted might be incorrect: we cannot be sure of information as it is presented to us.

A strange and sharply focused ambiguity permeates Ingalls’ work. Are these paintings or sculpture? Forms flicker back and forth between two and three dimensions demanding both renaming and repurposing as they shift. A large, flat rectangular piece of fly screen, with an open-gridded weave and no frame, hangs 12 inches out from the wall. This forms the basis of most of the pieces. As one approaches, one sees that paper pulp has been embedded in the gridded structure of the screen, forming marks that resemble pixels. The drawing act performed by these ‘pixels’ stresses the shifting quality of edges and suggests that the Earth’s air is filled with polluting particles. There is also a constant shift in the means used to represent objects. The lighting is such that moving shadows spill out of the screen and appear on the wall, some in focus and others not. It is difficult to know which are drawn and which are actual shadows. Added elements on the wall (such as metal arrows and multiple layers of cut details) attach to different parts of each structure, activating the three-dimensional life of this work. We are reminded that recent technology puts two-dimensional screens in our hands that serve to locate us elsewhere, even as we continue to stand in the midst of a three-dimensional natural world. We are thus simultaneously bombarded by numerous versions of the world.

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Schedule

from January 02, 2014 to January 25, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-01-02 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Eve Ingalls

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