One More: Miles Ingrassia | Feature Gallery Exhibition

Join us for the Opening Reception of Miles Ingrassia's One More on Friday March 7th, from 5-8 PM. 

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One more beer, one more hit, one more round, one more turn. Clinging to a fleeting moment in time. One more ride, one more hand, one more kick at the can. The moment where ‘fun’ falls off the end of ‘too much’. Desperate, cloying; quiet, comfortable.

This body of work is an exploration of the in-between; the spaces where touch lingers too long, where laughter borders on desperation, and where the line between friend and lover blurs like smoke in a crowded room. These intimate paintings aim to capture the raw, unspoken language of young men navigating the fragile terrain of connection. Moments stolen from the edge of night; mosh pits, drunken half-hugs, the coiled tension from the short leash of a cell phone charger, the promise of getting high.

Alive with contradiction, these works see bodies tangle and collide, at once tender and restless, violent and soft. Limbs pile like discarded lumber, evoking both comfort and unease, while accidental touch sparks a quiet electricity. Here, intimacy is not a destination, but a fleeting, fragile thing, caught in the push and pull of desire and denial. These works hum with the ache of something unnameable, where platonic closeness brushes against the forbidden, and vulnerability is a mask that slips.

In this way, “one more” becomes a mantra for fleeting validation, where young men grasp for connection where they lack the language to express it. These works bare the tension between inherited norms and the call for something softer, something true. A quiet rebellion, a testament to the beauty and brutality of being seen. Within these liminal spaces, we can feel the weight of a hand on a shoulder, the heat of a shared glance, the fragile hope of being understood.  

Within these liminal spaces, we can feel the weight of a hand on a shoulder, the heat of a shared glance, the fragile hope of being understood.  These works explore the contradictions of contemporary masculinity, aims to expose latent tenderness and reckon with its confines.