The Work of Ingrid Calame

The way the artist makes her paintings is similar to the way we have been, "finding" patterns and shapes and objects in real life over the past week or two. She does not paint from memory, or from still life, she finds things in the real world that intrigue her and she makes something abstract out of it. What Ingrid Calame does to create her pieces is to find a spot in the world where there are stains on the ground that grasp her attention, then she proceeds to copy these stains on to a large piece of thin see through copy paper. Then she takes the paper back to her studio where she rolls out the traces and puts them together with other traces. After that she colors in the lines with colored pencils and then starts painting with different colors wherever she feels like starting. Eventually she has made a large piece of art using found items in the world. Ingrid Calame is an artist who makes found images into art, like we have been doing. She sees the world for what it is. She makes her art the way she does because when she was little she wanted to make maps of the world and now she doesn't make maps per se but she makes a map of what she sees within these found images.

That piece of art up in the right hand corner is a piece of Ingrid Calame's artwork I particularly liked. It has various colors that caught my eye and there are many different thicknesses of lines and patterns that all come together beautifully. Then in the middle of the page there is this grey thick line that covers some of the colors. I love the way this part is added as kind of a bump in the road, but it adds to the rest of the painting because it gives some stillness and she worked around the grey matter to make something out of it.