Opening Exhibition: Small Talk by Miles Ingrassia

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An exhibition of Miles Ingrassia's large-scale figurative oil paintings opens at Sixteen Eleven Studios.

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Through large-scale figurative oil paintings, Miles Ingrassia depicts young men gathered in the familiar rituals of intimacy and leisure In Small Talk , ordinary moments of social life become sites of quiet emotional uncertainty. Through large-scale figurative oil paintings, Miles Ingrassia depicts young men gathered in the familiar rituals of intimacy and leisure: piled together on a couch, sharing a drink, waiting outside a club, or tending to one another through a haircut. These scenes are unremarkable at first glance, yet within them, small gestures begin to carry a weight that exceeds their apparent significance. Bodies press together, hands linger, and glances are exchanged or withheld. The paintings attend to the moments when closeness comes naturally, but meaning remains uncertain. Ingrassia’s work explores the contradictions of contemporary masculinity, particularly the ways intimacy is negotiated through gestures that can appear as casual, playful, or indifferent. Touch becomes both an expression of affection and a means of disguising it; proximity offers a form of connection without requiring anything to be named. Within these encounters, the boundaries between friendship and desire, tenderness and restraint, begin to blur. These paintings occupy an ambiguous space in which masculine intimacy is neither fully concealed nor entirely revealed.

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