From #258 Drawing (Tracings from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the L.A. River)  2007

California-based artist Ingrid Calame has developed a body of work inspired by stains and graffiti found on urban streets and sidewalks, which she captures through tracings and then transposes into richly layered drawings and paintings. Calame describes the colorful and complex overlapping patterns that she composes as “constellations.” In 2006, Calame visited the Indianap...