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Callum Innes

Untitled Lamp Black No. V . 2018

+ Frith Street Gallery

Innes uses the language of the monochrome, an established format of abstract painting since the 1960s. His paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, sometimes removing sections of paint from the canvases surface with turpentine to leave only the faintest traces of pigment. Continue reading Callum Innes

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Callum Innes

Exposed Painting Indigo . 2017

Exposed Painting Indigo . 2017

+ Sean Kelly

In “Exposed Paintings” a single tone of blue pigment, created by the artist, is painted on to the canvas. Turpentine is then repeatedly applied by brush to remove the paint before it dries, washing away or, as Innes has described it, “unpainting” the surface, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color. Continue reading Callum Innes