Jo Ann Callis

Jo Ann Callis (born 1940)[1] is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California.[2][3] Her work is held in various public collections.[4]

Life and work

Callis was born in Ohio.[1] Though she initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son Stephen in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born.[5] Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)[3] in 1970 initially in graphic design. When she took a course from Robert Heinecken in photography, she was encouraged by Heinecken to explore things within her mind.[2]

In 1975, while still a student at UCLA, a year before finishing her Masters in Fine Arts, she was offered a position to work at California Institute of the Arts (S. CA), where she works up until now (2017).

Callis's work is primarily surrealist. Thematically, she has traditionally been invested in drawing attention to and complicating domestic spaces and the role of motherhood. These characteristics are demonstrated in pieces such as Dish Trick (1985).[6]

Publications

  • Woman Twirling. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. Text by Judith Keller.
  • Decor. Thistle & Weed, 2013. Essay by Jennifer A. Watts.
  • Other Rooms. New York: Aperture, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59711-275-8.

Collections

Callis' work is held in the following public collections:

References

  1. 1 2 Bohnacker, Siobhan (March 6, 2014). "Jo Ann Callis's Color Work". Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter (March 27, 2009). "Jo Ann Callis' long lens on domestic life". Culture Monster. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Cecilia Alvarez, Ana (July 30, 2014). "Go behind the lens of Jo Ann Callis' odd arousal". Dazed. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ Callis, Jo Ann. "Photography and Media Faculty". Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ Muchnic, Suzanne (1989). "A Late Start is No Drawback for Callis". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Zellen, Jody (2015). "Burning Down the House: Ellen Brooks, Jo Ann Callis, Eileen Cowin". Afterimage. 42: 28 – via Academic OneFile.
  7. ↑ "Jo Ann Callis | MoMA". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
  8. ↑ "Jo Ann Callis | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
  9. ↑ "Jo Ann Callis (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
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