CALLUM INNES, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, 1962. lives and works IN Edinburgh, Scotland and Oslo, Norway

artists website:www.calluminnes.com

INNES is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London, United kingdom, Sean Kelly, New York, USA, Ingelby Gallery, Edinburgh, United kingdom, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, IrEland, Galerie Tschudi, Glarus and Zuoz, switzerland , i8, Reykjavík, iceland, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, norway

Innes tends to work alternately on a number of disparate series, each of which he repeatedly revisits. In his Exposed Paintings a single color, mixed by the artist, is brushed on to the canvas. Turpentine is then repeatedly applied by brush to remove the paint before it begins to dry. Innes washes away or, as he has described it, “unpaints” the canvas, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color. The result reveals varied veils of color buried within the seemingly monochromatic single pigment. Each finished painting thus suggests a freezing in time of the otherwise momentary arrest of an ongoing process. The play between the additive and subtractive process, the making and unmaking, underlies this sophisticated body of work