In Innes’ Exposed Paintings a single color 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 describes, “unpaints” the canvas, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color. The result reveals varied veils of color buried within the seemingly monochromatic pigment. Each 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. Executed at the largest scale possible within the artist's physical limits, Exposed Painting Delft Blue Phthalocyanine exemplifies the ambition and rigor of the series.