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Fruitmarket Gallery: Ingrid Calame - 4 Aug 2011 to 9 Oct 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Ingrid Calame �puEEP, 2001
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Ingrid Calame 4 Aug 2011 to 9 Oct 2011 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. 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 14 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] Notes to Editors Ingrid Calame is available for interview Ingrid Calame was born in the Bronx, New York in 1965. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. On the occasion of her exhibition Ingrid Calame has produced a silkscreen print (detailed opposite) in an edition of 50 exclusively for the Gallery, price £250. The Fruitmarket Gallery aims to make art accessible without compromising art or underestimating audiences. It presents world-class, thought-provoking and challenging exhibitions of modern and contemporary art made by both Scottish and international artists in an environment that is welcoming, engaging, informative and always free. Ingrid Calame is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London, James Cohen Gallery, New York and Shanghai and Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne Media Enquiries contact Press and Marketing Manager Louise Warmington P 0131 226 8182 E [email protected] The Fruitmarket Gallery 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DF www.fruitmarket.co.uk The Fruitmarket Gallery is a publicly funded art gallery of national and international significance, and is Scotland’s premier contemporary art space. The Gallery aims to make contemporary art accessible without compromising art or under-estimating audiences. Its programme of exhibitions of Scottish and international artists is world-class and always free. The Fruitmarket Gallery is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 87888 and registered as a Scottish Charity No. SC 005576. VAT No. 398 2504 21. Registered Office: 45 Market St., Edinburgh, EH1 1DF |
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