Tyler Park Presents is pleased to present Siphoning, the gallery’s third solo exhibition with Los Angeles–based artist Daniel Ingroff. The exhibition will be on view from February 21 through March 28, 2026, with a reception on Saturday, February 21, from 6–8 pm.

Made over a three-year period, the paintings in Siphoning situate humans, objects, and landscapes in poetic relationships, where the boundaries between animate and inanimate begin to blur. Prior to this exhibition, Ingroff collected decorative objects from Southern California flea markets, selecting them for their shape and material such as glass, metal, and porcelain. Over time, these objects began appearing in his paintings, taking on new roles within imagined and real environments. Ranging in scale, the paintings often depict reflective or transparent forms that appear to “siphon” the surrounding world into their central bodies. Through this process, the objects take on a talismanic presence, an image-based power that exceeds their material existence. 

A defining element of Ingroff’s practice is his sustained attention to detail, particularly in the rendering of light as it reflects across metal and glass surfaces. In works such as Glass Swan and Glass Horse, these reflections generate moments of abstraction, destabilizing the boundary between object and environment. In I’m your puppet & Mandrake, humans interact with human-like objects, turning this act of looking back onto the viewer: figures within the paintings act as stand-ins, inviting the viewer to project themselves into the scene. While Ingroff’s technique constructs a pictorially stable world, the experience of subjectivity within it remains fluid and uncertain.

The landscapes in Siphoning span arid deserts to lush forests, reflecting the variable climates surrounding Los Angeles. In Forest Lawn, a small horizontal painting depicting a topographical view of the Forest Lawn Mortuary and the surrounding neighborhood of Glendale, Ingroff constructed a diorama from photographs of the site before translating it into paint. The resulting image functions as a theatrical set,  where ideas of landscape as both natural and manicured, untouched yet controlled are staged and examined. Across the exhibition, “siphoning” operates not only as a visual phenomenon but as a conceptual framework. Images draw from one another; objects absorb their environments; figures project themselves into inanimate forms. Energy circulates between interior and exterior, surface and depth. The paintings suggest that perception itself is porous or an ongoing transfer between viewer and viewed. What appears inert becomes animate, and what seems stable shifts.

Daniel Ingroff (B. 1983 in Taos, NM) is a Los Angeles-based artist who holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a BA from Pitzer College, Claremont. His work has been shown in exhibitions at venues such as Club Rhubard; New York, Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York; Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; 356 S. Mission, Los Angeles; and Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles; among others. His solo exhibition Reservoir took place in 2021 and Appendix in 2023 Tyler Park Presents. His solo exhibition Meniscus took place in 2022 at Situations in New York.