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(b. 1951, Alliance, Ohio) attended Kent State University where he received both his Bachelor (1973) and his Master of Fine Arts (1976) degrees. After teaching at Youngstown State University, the University of Akron and Kent State University, he moved to New York in 1980, where he served as studio assistant to James Rosenquist, Helen Frankenthaler and Al Held.  

Represented by the Allan Stone Gallery, New York, McCallum has had exhibitions there as well as showing his work at the New York Institute of Technology; the Futura Gallery, Stockholm; A.I.R. Gallery, New York; the Cleveland Museum of Art; and other galleries and museums. His work is included in private collections in New York, Sweden, London, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Tampa, Miami and Richmond, Virginia.

"McCallum's enormous canvases are totally abstract; the issues with which they deal are formal ones. Layers of curving and bending grids of absolutely precise lines wildly intersect and veer away. The artist simultaneously creates and destroys the illusion of three- dimensional space through the use of contrasting colors, distortions of perspective, overlapping and other formal devices. The riotous visual rhythms and cacophony of colors go beyond issues of form to produce beautiful, imposing images of contradictory states -space and flatness, order and chaos."

-Barbara Tannenbaum
Curator,  Akron Art Museum