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28/1/2002

Eve Ingalls

SOHO2O Gallery, New York

SOHO2O Gallery announces an exhibition of recent sculpture by Eve Ingalls. In her latest work, a large-scale installation entitled Unsheltered; she constructs a built environment of sculptural elements that simultaneously recall shelter and the human body.

Human in scale the installation awakens in the viewer an awareness of one's own body in space, a sense of flowing chi or the energy that animates all living things, and a consciousness of one's skin as a boundary between one's self and the world. By setting up this relationship she provides the viewer an opportunity to consider themes of physical and emotional vulnerability as well as intimacy and desire.

Ingalls chose the universal gesture of putting an arm around another person's shoulder, as the basis for her formal vocabulary. She recreates this gesture, by pulling and stretching a heavy, yet malleable polymer to create a sensuous, muscular form that subtly echoes the shape of an outstretched arm and cupped hand. Each idiosyncratic, organically shaped form becomes a building block for her structures. The sculptures themselves act as a document of her own gestural intervention with the medium while serving as a metaphor for the longing of humans to touch be touched by others.

Ingalls has exhibited in France, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, as well as throughout the United States including exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Bruce Museum, and the New Britain Museum of American Art. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Arts magazine, Art and Antiques, Art New England, De Volkskrant, Beeldende and Die Courant Amsterdam.

RECEPTION: Saturday, Feb. 2, 5 - 8 PM
ADDRESS: 511 West 25th Street, Suite 605, NYC
HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday. 12 - 6 PM

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