The Fruitmarket Gallery 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. Exhibition open 4 August – 9 October, 2011.
Ingrid Calame …puEEP, 2001
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. Poised between sspspss..UM biddle BOP, 1997, a huge painting on Mylar (architectural tracing paper) that drapes from the gallery wall to the floor, and a new wall drawing LA River at Clearwater Street, 2006–8 made especially for and in The Fruitmarket Gallery, the exhibition presents the development of Calame’s singular visual language from her earliest tracings on her studio floor to her most recent workings and reworkings of marks recorded in the dried-out concrete riverbed of the L.A. River and at three locations in Buffalo: the ArcelorMittal Steel Shipping Building, the Perry Street Projects wading pool, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery parking lot.
Talks
Artist’s Talk
Friday 5 August, 3pm. Free.
Ingrid Calame in conversation with Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Talk: Mark Dorrian,
Adventures on the Vertical
Wednesday 29 September, 6.30pm. Free.
Professor Mark Dorrian (University of Newcastle) explores the poetics, politics and powers of looking from above.
Tours
‘Ways of Seeing’ 60+ Gallery Tour
Thursday 8 September, 11.30am–1.30pm. Free.
15 places. Refreshments provided.
Booking essential.
A tour of the exhibition led by freelance gallery educator Mary Keegan.
Informal Friday Tours
Every Friday, 2pm. Free.
Drop in for this informal 40-minute exhibition tour.
Seminar
Feminism and Contemporary Art
Wednesday 5 October, 5–8.15pm. £10/8.
Is gender, as Susan Hiller suggests, a ‘non-issue’ for women artists now? This seminar brings together artists, art historians and curators to explore the place of feminism and gender politics in the fields of contemporary art making, curating and art history research and publications. Speakers include: artists Rachel Adams and Kate
Davis, art historians and writers Angela Dimitrakaki (University of Edinburgh), Alexandra Kokoli (Gray’s School of Art), Declan Long (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) and Sarah Lowndes (Glasgow School of Art). Chaired by Moira Jeffrey.
Booking is recommended for all talks.
To book your place call 0131 226 8181 or email [email protected]
The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1DF
