Miles Ingrassia

Miles Ingrassia is a Toronto based painter. Ingrassia's work explores the male figure, and are influenced heavily by his experiences of growing up in Hamilton, ON, as well as reflections of masculinity.

Working from photographs a reference, both staged and from personal archive, the act of painting allows Ingrassia to disrupt these images, creating moments of tension and dissolution. These works aim to reveal what traditional masculinity tends to hide - fragility, isolation, embarrassment, among other emotions and behaviours, as well an inability to mange emotions and behaviours like these.