Ingrid Calame

Ingrid Calame's artworks reminds me of our project with found patterns and shapes in the past week and the paint pouring project. It has a lot of amorphous and colorful shapes overlapping each other. Her arts are abstract; she doesnt draw from memory nor still life; she make her arts from found shapes like we did in the past week. Ingrid Calame was born in the Bronx, New York in 1965. She is an abstract artist with her own unique styles and methods. She started her type of abstract art in the early 1990s. She traces real life shapes such as graffiti or tire skid marks or cracks from specific sites over the country on large rolls of Mylar (a see- through polyester tracing paper). She collects her traces and overlaps them over each other in her studio in Los Angles and adds color to the lines and shapes with a color pencil and paint. Her hard work resulted into beautiful, colorful and abstract masterpieces. She makes her paintings the way because she wanted to "map" the world of art with her found images.
The art work in the upper right corner is my favorite art by her. I like the color and the pattern. It just makes it pleasant to look at it. I could look at it for a long time without getting bored. It also has depth; the pattern was painted in a certain way that it gives some depth into the picture.