The Fruitmarket Gallery is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in Scotland of the work of American artist Ingrid Calame, whose beautifully-coloured, intricate drawings and paintings have a specific, if abstracted relationship to the world. Read more …
Calame’s paintings and drawings all begin with Calame tracing marks, stains and cracks on the ground. She then combines, layers and retraces the tracings before transforming them into drawings in coloured pencil or pure pigment and paintings in enamel or, more recently, oil paint. The works that result from this singular process are beautiful and intelligent abstractions. Displayed in a gallery, they retain their connection with the world outside at several removes, exerting an oddly insistent presence.
This exhibition brings together drawings and paintings made from 1994 to 2011.
Image details: Ingrid Calame, Installation View, 2011.
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh from Thursday August 4, 2011, until Sunday October 9, 2011. More info: www.fruitmarket.co.uk