Front Gallery

Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory

February 20 through April 7, 2019
Opening reception: February 20, 2019, 6–8pm

Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory (installation view). Image #1383
Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory (installation view). Image #1384
Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory (installation view). Image #1385
Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory (installation view). Image #1386
Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory (installation view). Image #1387
Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory (installation view). Image #1389
Tony Ingrisano, "Runways for Carlo Rovelli", 2019, acrylic and ink on paper, .... Image #1338
Tony Ingrisano, "Runways for Carlo Rovelli", 2019 (detail), acrylic and ink o.... Image #1326
Tony Ingrisano,  "Razzle Dazzle: Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)", 2019, acrylic and.... Image #1293
Tony Ingrisano, "Constellations 2", 2018, acrylic on paper, cut and rearrange.... Image #1296
Tony Ingrisano, "Frankfurt Hamburg Munich", 2019, acrylic and ink on paper, c.... Image #1329
Tony Ingrisano, "Frankfurt Hamburg Munich", 2019 (detail), acrylic and ink on.... Image #1317
Tony Ingrisano, "Height Line (B)", 2019, acrylic and ink on paper, cut and re.... Image #1330
Tony Ingrisano, "Height Line (B)", 2019 (detail), acrylic and ink on paper, c.... Image #1318
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Akron (CAK)", 2018, acrylic and ink on paper,.... Image #1333
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Akron (CAK)", 2018 (detail), acrylic and ink .... Image #1322
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Baltimore (BWI)", 2019, acrylic and ink on pa.... Image #1335
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Baltimore (BWI)", 2019 (detail), acrylic and .... Image #1323
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Chicago O’Hare (ORD)", 2018, acrylic and ink .... Image #1336
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Chicago O’Hare (ORD)", 2018 (detail), acrylic.... Image #1324
Tony Ingrisano, "Ohio Locals", 2018, acrylic and ink on paper, cut and rearra.... Image #1332
Tony Ingrisano, "LAX Tries On Some Camouflage", 2018, acrylic and ink on pape.... Image #1331
Tony Ingrisano, "SFO Tries On Some Camouflage", 2018, acrylic and ink on pape.... Image #1339
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Tokyo Haneda (HND)", 2018, acrylic and ink on.... Image #1337
Tony Ingrisano, "Razzle Dazzle: Tokyo Haneda (HND)", 2018 (detail), acrylic a.... Image #1325
Tony Ingrisano, "Untitled (Yellow)", 2018, acrylic and ink on paper, 33 x 34 .... Image #1328
Tony Ingrisano, "Untitled (Yellow)", 2018, acrylic and ink on paper, 33 x 34 .... Image #1340
Tony Ingrisano, "The Center Line of Vision", 2018, acrylic and ink on paper, .... Image #1294
Tony Ingrisano, "Bubble Gun", 2018, acrylic and ink on paper, cut and rearran.... Image #1295

 

 

Tony Ingrisano: The Map and The Territory
February 20 – April 7, 2019
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 20, 6–8pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, March 23, 2:30pm

 

“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.” Polish-American philosopher Alfred Korzybski wrote, in 1931. [i]

The concept of representation has intrigued many great thinkers. Artists, too, have long investigated the real and representational in their work. The Map and The Territory—Tony Ingrisano’s third solo exhibition with the gallery—explores the relationships of these arrangements and focuses on this disconnect between reality and representation.  

Most maps prioritize readability at the expense of accuracy; perspective drawings offer a framework for creating an illusion of reality but get erased as the drawing advances. They tell us as much about how we imagine a place as they do about the geography they are meant to describe. Encoded into them are a culture’s preconceptions, the fraught perceptual distortions of a location within the world.

Ingrisano weaves together multiple sources of this imagery; entangling them until they lose any sense that they can locate us within a particular site. The original value of these mapping systems as “accurate” depictions and useful tools slips away and their substance as cultural symbols is disrupted. They become new maps: blueprints hinting at undefinable and unlimited spaces no longer constrained by expectation; newly designed information sets providing data on fantastical structures and systems not yet invented. Ingrisano’s work presents the territory unbound, exploded by possibility, awash in color and unfettered imagination.

The Map and The Territory presents a cartography that investigates the social and environmental structures that surround us, looking at new ways of visualizing these organizations and systems.  Ingrisano breaks down this relationship of space and representation of space through imagery culled from transportation maps and technical drawing motifs.  He cuts, reassembles, layers and redraws this imagery, producing large-scale paintings and drawings which retain the basic glossary of their origins but present in their stead convoluted propositions; possibilities of a space complex enough to get lost in. 

 

Tony Ingrisano (b. 1980, Connecticut) is an artist known for his multi media artworks made of layered ink, graphite, watercolor, and collaged paper elements on panel which combine compositions of grid lines and organic forms. Ingrisano received an MFA from Pratt Institute (2008), where he was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award, and a BFA from The University of Vermont (2002). Ingrisano’s work has been featured in various galleries and institutions including at the Islip Art Museum, NY; 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, OH; National Arts Club, NY; Lesley Heller Gallery, NY; Kunsthalle Galapagos, NY; F.U.E.L. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Magnan Projects, NY; Allegra LaViola Gallery, NY; and On Stellar Rays, NY. His work has been written about in The New York TimesArt F City, and Art Daily. Tony Ingrisano is currently based in Cleveland, OH, where he is Assistant Professor of Painting at The Cleveland Institute of Art.

 

[i] KORZYBSKI, Alfred Habdank. Science and Sanity. An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics. International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Co, 1933, p. 58