SOHO20 CHELSEA Gallery is pleased to announce Papered Over, an exhibition of Recent Sculpture by Eve Ingalls.

In her new and innovative series of large-scale sculptures Ingalls employs richly varied densities of handmade paper and metal.

These materials are used to highlight climate change as a force that causes cracks and slippages in natural and cultural boundaries. Several sculptures evoke shelters that might once have been considered secure but have now become outposts in an uninhabitable territory. The piece All-Weather Tent suggests an architectural structure that has decayed into a fragment trapped between saltwater waves and parched earth, while It’s Only a Wave, Ma’am, a piece that is simultaneously a wave and a building, indicates a fatal uncertainty between comfort and peril.

Ingalls’ sculptures feel ‘site uncomfortable,’ as if they are passing through the gallery on their way elsewhere and resist being housed within the boundaries of a white cube. The result is that the sculptures themselves seem to be breaking boundaries and changing location, structure, and shape before the viewer’s eyes.

References to the human body and to human scale unite in the sculpture to produce an unsettling effect of implicating a part of the viewer’s body in the action that defines each sculpture. It is as if a part of one’s body is being used without one’s consent, blurring the boundary between artwork and viewer.

Ingall’s Papered Over brings forth some disturbing themes while maintaining sculptural forms of great beauty, strength and persistence. Humor is also abundant. For Ingalls humor is a means to keep open the boundaries that limit creative space.

In 2007, Ingalls worked in Japan where she had two exhibitions as well as a residency at the Awagami Papermaking Factory. Ingalls 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 Nacion (San Jose, Costa Rica).


SOHO20 Chelsea is now one of the oldest organizations in the U.S. created to address the under-representation of work by women in museums and galleries.

For more information or visuals contact Gallery Director, Alessandra Duarte at SOHO20 Chelsea by email: soho20@verizon.net by phone 212.367.8994 or visit www.soho20gallery.com.