FotoFocus Presents: Jo Ann Callis
Posted on January 13, 2016
Jo Ann Callis
Lecture and Visiting Artist Series, Spring 2016
Lecture
Wednesday February 24, 2016 at 7:00pm
Fath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Free and Open to the Public
Reservations are not required, but early arrival is recommended.
Parking is free for Cincinnati Art Museum Members, $4 for non-members.
Reception
A public reception will immediately follow the lecture in the Great Hall.
About the Artist
Jo Ann Callis (born in Cincinnati, 1940) rose to prominence in the 1970s as an early pioneer of the Fabricated Photographs movement. A student of Robert Heinecken, she became known for her unsettling, dreamlike images that portray domestic scenes and interiors staged in extensively constructed sets. For the past 40 years, she has used an expert eye for color and lighting to create renowned photographs that capture the inherent anxieties of domesticity and utilize composition to illustrate opposing sets of emotions in a single frame. Her avant-garde style is widely recognized and published.
Callis, a Guggenheim Fellow and longtime professor at CalArts, had a retrospective of her work at the J. Paul Getty Museum and has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MOMA, SFMOMA, and LACMA.
The artist will speak in conversation with Rose Shoshana, the Director of the Rose Gallery in Santa Monica, Los Angeles.
Press Release as a PDF: FotoFocus Lecture and Visiting Artist Series, Spring 2016: Jo Ann Callis Press Release PDF
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