Dan Callis (born in Long Beach, CA) is a Los Angeles based visual artist, arts educator, specializing in interdisciplinary explorations.
Working within a variety of mediums and visual traditions, Callis’s work draws on personal and cultural histories, centering on themes of human flourishing and theological imagination, what poet Christian Wiman has called “accidental” theology.
Beyond his individual studio practice, Callis has engaged in extensive collaborative work with a diverse group of partners, including individuals with physical and developmental disabilities, a field biologist in Baja, Mexico, a sociologist in Las Vegas, a theologian from Duke Divinity School, a poet and musician from Southern California, a performance artist and puppeteer from Rhode Island, , and in a multi-artist response to the music of American composer Morten Lauridsen.
He earned an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University, where he was the recipient of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Young Talent Award. His B.A. in drawing and painting from California State University, Fullerton.
“Callis’s paintings, even when troubled, do indeed stand for hope. Hope for the viewers not least of all, who are invited into the unresolved but ongoing conversation these works have with each other and that they have with the world and the people living in it. ”
ITERATIONS OF DAN
A documentary by Vern Moen.
