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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 Paintingsseries. 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.
Innes tends to work alternately on a number of different series at once. To echo the artist’s process, this exhibition also presents works from the Untitledseries and the Resonance series with works ranging from deep black to almost pristine white.
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Callum Innes was born in Edinburgh in 1962. He was short-listed for the Turner and Jerwood Prizes in 1995, won the prestigious NatWest Prize for Painting in 1998, and in 2002 was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and his work is held in public collections worldwide including the Guggenheim, New York; National Gallery of Australia; TATE, London, Musée national d’art modern, Paris and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Frith Street Gallery
17-18 Golden Square
