Trace

The Fruitmarket Gallery is proud 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 the artist tracing marks, stains and cracks on the ground. Back in the studio, the tracings are combined, layered and re-traced in coloured pencil, and painted in enamel or, more recently oil paint. The paintings and drawings that result from this singular process are beautiful and intelligent abstract works. Displayed in a gallery, they retain their connection with the world outside at several removes, exerting an oddly insistent presence.