Paintings

stations, we shall rise exhibition

“In these paintings, Daniel Callis takes up this dyadic ambiguity of the grid but reworks it in evocative ways, allowing the material and spiritual connotations of grid-space to play off of each. Grids reappear throughout his works in exuberantly material surfaces that readily display (even revel in) labor-intensive processes, layers of lively mark-making, and finely tuned organizations of color and value. Yet these gridded surfaces are also consistently enwoven with spiritual concern, not only through the traditional connotations of grid-space that Rosalin Krauss described but through religious points of reference that subtly recur—in paintings studded with rosary beads, serialities based on the Stations of the Cross, constellations of Greek crosses, and so on.” Jonathan Anderson, Grids, Nets, and the Unspeakable, exhibition catalog