Callum Innes

13 Mar-24 Apr 2015

Overview

Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes. One of the most important painters of his generation, Innes is known for a practice that combines intellectual rigour with incredible sensitivity to his chosen medium. This exhibition focuses on works from the artist's celebrated Exposed Paintings series. These works are created through a process of addition and subtraction. Progressive layers of paint are applied to a section of the canvas' surface often creating a field of black paint. Part of this layer is then removed using turpentine to reveal the constituent colours underneath. The residue of this process stains the canvas with a veil of luminous pigment. The exhibition here contains a number of large Exposed Paintings that feature the colour violet.