Director's Journal: The Work of Ingrid Calame

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Contemporary Art @ IMA
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Come check out the third floor of our galleries, home to the contemporary art collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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The track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Take a look at the venue that inspired this work of art.

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Ingrid Calame’s Art Work in the James Cohan Gallery.

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Los Angeles River Basin
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What’s so special about the Los Angeles River?

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Translate Korean -> English
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Check out this Flickr group full of Korean characters.

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In the Factory: Ingrid Calame
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Learn about current IMA events with Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO Maxwell Anderson. This episode features an in-gallery talk with IMA Curator, Lisa Freiman.

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00:00:00 We're in the McCormack Forefront Galleries with Lisa Freiman, our Curator of Contemporary Art in a wonderful new exhibition, and Lisa we're standing in front of what looks to be an abstract painting.

00:00:11 Yes, it is. It's an abstract painting that is derived from the real world. It's actually taken from the Speedway itself,

00:00:20 and we had a team of twelve assistants to Ingrid Calame come out for a week and, in the cold weather, got on their hands and knees and started tracing the skid marks from Indy 500 races.

00:00:32 Lisa, when Ingrid went to the racetrack, she was interested in one particular driver's actions, could you fill us in on what's going on here?

00:00:39 Ya...about three days after Ingrid and her assistants arrived at the track, they were shown Dan Wheldon's victory doughnut loop.

00:00:49 When he won, he did a victory lap and did some doughnuts which apparently was unheard of in the Indy 500 and this is that very famous mark,

00:00:59 which you see reappearing throughout many of the works in this exhibition.

00:01:03 This is actually the first one that was done and you can see the way that she has used these different high-key colors.

00:01:11 They actually are colored pencils and she has picked up particular lines and marks throughout the composition and they have a kind of cosmological appearance

00:01:22 or a topographical one. Mapping obviously is a very particular practice that has a one-to-one relationship with what's on the ground, and Ingrid is distorting that by mixing marks from different places and times.

00:01:36 The interesting thing is that it is not just Indianapolis Motor Speedway traces, it's also some traces from the Los Angeles River Basin and that's a place where

00:01:46 people leave marks in the form of graffiti and then there is one thing in this painting that probably most people don't know which is this big green area, is a Korean character

00:01:57 and so this is actually a compilation, or what she would describe as a constellation, of three different places across the globe that have come together in a unique abstract painting.

00:02:10 Come join us for Ingrid Calame "Traces of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway", open until March 16th.