Calame and her team obtained tracings from the dried-out concrete riverbed of the L. River, hand-stenciled numbers on the factory floors of the ArcelorMittal Steel factory floors, and from the cracks in an abandoned wading pool at the Perry Street Projects in Buffalo, New York. These tracings were then assembled and retraced in colored pencil to form the final layered drawings.
From these tracings I make drawings and paintings. I clean the original tracings and layer them on top of each other. This determines the size of the drawings I will eventually make. I then start to trace the layers of rubbings that are beneath the rectangles, with a different color pencil for each layer, peeling back the layers one by one until I reach the bottom of the pile. The final drawings are always a surprise. We took tracings from a storage hall at the Arcelor Mittal steel plant, from a wading pool, a parking lot This working process is important - going out into the world.
My journey through tracing different sites, working with and meeting people and seeing their reactions to the work - all this has changed my understanding of representation and abstraction.
Guide to drawing Art. Artist Ingrid Calame on how she draws. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, NY. For sales, or more information about an edition, please contact Graphicstudio at or gsoffice usf. Images of the artwork are jointly owned by the artist and Graphicstudio. Reproduction of any kind including electronic media must be expressly approved by Graphicstudio. Suite of three prints.
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