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Soho20Chelsea Gallery
presents
Eve
Ingalls
Drawing Earth
March 2
- March 27, 2010
Opening
Reception: March 4, 5-8 pm
Eve Ingalls
Position Available
2009
abaca
handmade paper, wire, string,
bentwood
96”x89”x58”
SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery is pleased to
announce Drawing Earth, a series of
large-scale two- and three-dimensional drawings by sculptor
Eve Ingalls.
Eve
Ingalls
Position Available,
detail
2009
abaca handmade paper, wire, string,
bentwood
96”x89”x58
Ingalls’ work is a study of ways in which human
cultures secure themselves in space by drawing and redrawing
the earth’s surface. Drawing Earth,
a major sculpture that gives the exhibition its title, is a
10’ x10’ x 8’ stack built of three-dimensional maps. Its
surfaces reveal successive stages of transformation caused by
changing human attitudes. It suggests that in the process of
scraping, digging, erasing, creating and destroying walls and
redrawing boundaries, we draw our fears and desires into the
surface of the earth. These drawings leave traces throughout
successive layers of cultural development. For Ingalls,
the surface of the earth is a place of encounter between
nature and human drawing acts. It is a persistent
palimpsest.
Eve
Ingalls
Drawing Earth, detail
2010
abaca and
kozo handmade paper, wire, pigment, aluminum,
120”x120”x96”
Ingalls also reminds us that drawing does not always
create literal things on this earth. Measuring and locating
systems also are often superimposed upon the earth:
charts, graphs, and maps are used to help us understand
processes that shape our lives. Drawing
Earth is suspended from a grid, signaling that
the stack is a study site rather than a simple representation
of place. Openings left within the surface of each layer
become viewing stations through which the viewer can gaze at
the drawing of previous layers. In Ingalls’ two-dimensional
drawings, the stretched canvas also becomes a grid that
measures an archaeological site filled with locating
devices.
Eve
Ingalls
Drawing Earth, detail
2010
abaca and
kozo handmade paper, wire, pigment,
aluminum
120”x120”x96”
Throughout her work, Ingalls introduces elements of
mapping, such as arrows, as well as references to city plans
and soil profiles, to intensify the sense that this is
territory to be studied in order to bring to light the nature
of the ongoing encounter between humans, their dreams, and the
land.
Eve Ingalls
After Thought
2010
aluminum,
handmade abaca paper
50”x50”x50”
Eve Ingalls exhibited on Governors Island, NY,
NY in 2008 and 2009. In 2007, she worked in Japan where she
had two exhibitions as well as a residency at the Awagami
Papermaking Factory. She represented the United States at the
Holland Paper Biennial 2006, held at the Coda Museum and the
Museum Rijswijk. In 2003 her work was exhibited at the
Schokland Museum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the
Netherlands. Her work has also been 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, Hand Papermaking
Magazine, Art and Antiques, Art New
England, De Volkskrant, Beeldende
Kunst, De Courant Amsterdam, and La
Nación (San José, Costa Rica).
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