On the adjacent wall, Manchas (Stains) a series of
oil stain drawings of varied shapes and hues is made by leaving sheets of paper underneath a car, hoping for a coincidental encounter between the paper and used oil leaking from the engine.
Not exact matches
Still Life with BB Holes, Painted Pear and Learn to
Draw Rodent / 2015 /
oil, acrylic, enamel, spray paint, ink, gesso, and mud with polymer medium and smoke
stain on canvas / 48» x 36» / PLS INQ
The following year, with Mountains and Sea, 1952, she created another kind of painterly space by
staining unprimed canvas with
oil paint while allowing telltale signs of
drawing to remain.
Her work begins with marks,
stains and cracks on the ground which Calame traces, then combines layers and retraces, transforming them into
drawings in coloured penicl or pure pigment and paintings in enamel or
oil pain.
This is clear in works like Scalar (1971), with its planes of chipboard and paper
stained with crude
oil, and in the carbon - paper
drawings installed on both the wall and the floor, a series on view here in depth for the first time in forty years.