Exhibitions

​BURTON CALLICOTT: LIGHT & SPACE

David Lusk Gallery Memphis / 97 Tillman St. March 24 - April 18th

Burton Callicott

In addition to educator and mentor, Burton Callicott (1907-2003) was a masterful painter of the perception of light. Here, a single-owner collection of mid-career paintings shows those skills across iconic images: tree shadows on a clapboard house, sunlight cast upon a graphic interior wall, prisms dancing on cathedral stones, a hazy upward arching rainbow, and the pure spectral light of a sunrise. In each painting Callicott's abiding spirituality, curiosity, acute awareness of light, and ability to stretch color resonate deeply.