Dan Callis (born Long Beach, CA) is a Southern California-based visual artist and arts educator specializing in interdisciplinary explorations. He earned an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. Callis pursues a studio-based practice, working across painting, sculpture, and installation art. Alongside his individual studio practice, he has developed an extensive body of collaborative work with a diverse range 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 multiple artists in a collaborative response to the music of American composer Morten Lauridsen.
“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.
