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ROSS CALIENDO

Peace Fellow

Night Gallery is pleased to present Peace Fellow, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Ross Caliendo. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery following his inclusion in the group exhibition Shrubs, 2022 and our 2025 Frieze Los Angeles presentation.

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

This oil and acrylic on canvas piece depicts a forest coastline landscape. Nearly bare trees with gray trunks lines the foreground, middle, and background of the left side of the canvas. To the right, through the trees a green cliff side and a turquoise colored ocean sit. At the base of the trunks are flowers in shades of orange, red, green, and yellow.

Ross Caliendo, California, 2025

Peace Fellow is a show of landscape paintings, a conventional genre that Caliendo uses as a foil to explore concepts of visual perception and optics. Throughout this work there are notes of Americana-kitsch (a bald eagle, palm trees, etc.) which are deployed to give the viewer a false sense of security for experiencing genuinely radical paintings. 

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

In shades of cool blue, lavender, pink, and red, this acrylic on canvas portrays a forest landscape.

Ross Caliendo, Jewelbox, 2025

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

This artwork portrays three close up images of tree trunks. The top tree is colored in a muted mauve, the middle tree is a light brown, while the bottom tree is a light blue. All three trees have minimal leaves attached, in shades of faded orange and light blue. In the back ground of the top tree, the sky is a light blue with a reddish ground. The middle tree has an orange sky with a purple ground, and the bottom tree has an indigo sky and blue ground. Each image is meant to illustrate a time of day.

Ross Caliendo, Tall Triplet, 2025

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

The artwork portrays a forest landscape with trees trunks in a the background with colors of deep blue and orange. In the foreground a tree with multicolored leaves sits as the focal point. Leaves in colors such as blue, yellow, brown, and orange cover the forest ground.

Ross Caliendo, Pthalo Zone, 2025

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

At first glance, the canvases in Peace Fellow depict familiar scenes: a grove of birch trees on a wind-swept bluff, a row of palm trees basking in the glow of sunset, and a sun-dappled path in an old-growth forest. The longer you look (and the closer you get), these familiar images begin to disintegrate and collapse in on themselves, giving way to patterns, scrapes, impasto dots, swipes, and washes - a micro-universe of colors. This cacophony of gestures would individually be described as impressionistic; collectively, they illustrate the rigor of our cones, rods, and optic nerves as they shape and order our seen reality.

detail of Ross Caliendo's painting titled Pthalo Zone made in 2025

Ross Caliendo, Pthalo Zone, 2025, detail 

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

A three panel piece on canvases in various brush strokes and shades of green with red trees and an owl looking outward.

Ross Caliendo, Forest, 2025

The largest painting in this show, Forest, stretches across three large canvases, with a camouflaged great grey owl flanked on either side by outstretched branches. Aptly known as the spectral owl or phantom of the north, this bird haunts its viewers' periphery, darting in and out of the line of sight before sneaking back into its habitat and/or monochrome ground. While this owl does serve as a greater totem for this exhibition, the subject of Forest (and perhaps all the works here) is the illusion. By depicting the phenomena of flawless, natural camouflage achieved through centuries of evolution, Caliendo draws our attention to the illusory nature of painting and invites us to revel in its trickery. 

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

Detail of an owl in "Forest"

Ross Caliendo, Forest, detail, 2025

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

Forest scene is depicted in colors of red, green, yellow, coral, and pink. Multicolored foliage cover the middle of the forest floor while dark brown trunks rest at the sides of the canvas. The foreground of the canvas is colored red with  quick black brush strokes.

Ross Caliendo, Totem Overgrown, 2025

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

This oil and acrylic on canvas portrays a nature landscape with a slim gray colored walking path at the foreground that stretches off into the distance of a line of trees. Also in the foreground are abstract images of lines in varying shades of blue. Two large trees sit on the left side of the path while one tree is one the right. A pebbled walled rest at the middle ground of this piece. Behind the wall is a cobalt blue square, inside is an image of a tree outlined in white.

Ross Caliendo, CHOICES, 2025

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

This piece consists of vivid reds, yellow, and multiple shades of pink. Together, the pigments illustrate a scene of a tree with a dark gray trunk at the center of canvas. A hill in the background and colorful fallen leaves at the foreground.

Ross Caliendo, Cream Creek, 2025

ROSS CALIENDO - Peace Fellow - Viewing Room - Night Gallery
This artwork uses shades of yellow, orange, red, coral ,and faded mauve to created a sunset background while vibrant green palm trees sit as the focal point of this acrylic on canvas pieces. Spots of sunset light can be seen through some of the leaves on the trees.

Ross Caliendo, California 2, 2025

Detail of "Cream Creek"

Ross Caliendo, California 2, 2025, detail 

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

This piece utilizes an array of colors such as yellow, blue, green, red, pink, orange, purple to create a scene of wild flowers and foliage. At the center is a vibrant green square with white outline image of plants and branches.

Ross Caliendo, Delights, 2025

Detail of "Delights"

Ross Caliendo, Delights, detail, 2025

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

This oil and acrylic on canvas illustrates a landscape of a hillside in shades of green and yellow. A wide open sky in light blue and cobalt shades covers most of the canvas. Small red brush strokes dust the foreground of the work to depict flowers and foliage. At the center sits and outlined image of a wolf, with a crescent moon resting just below the animal’s right eye.

Ross Caliendo, Patience, 2025

Ross Caliendo, Patience, 2025, detail 

Ross Caliendo, Patience, 2025, detail 

Installation view of "Peace Fellow"

Ross Caliendo, Peace Fellow, installation view, 2025

Ross Caliendo has exhibited internationally and domestically at venues including Anthony Gallery (Chicago, IL), Fores Project (London, UK), Loyal Gallery (Stockholm, SE), Pace Prints (New York, NY), Asia Art Center (Taipei, Taiwan), Hunter Dunbar Projects (New York, NY), and The K11 Musea (Hong Kong, China), among others. In 2022, the artist held his first institutional solo exhibition in Asia, entitled "Realm", at the CVG Foundation, (Beijing, China). Caliendo received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, OH), in 2011. He has been living and working in Los Angeles, CA since.

Ross Caliendo

Pthalo Zone, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

70 3/4 x 91 3/4 in (179.7 x 233 cm)

Ross Caliendo

Pthalo Zone, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

70 3/4 x 91 3/4 in (179.7 x 233 cm)

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This oil and acrylic on canvas piece depicts a forest coastline landscape. Nearly bare trees with gray trunks lines the foreground, middle, and background of the left side of the canvas. To the right, through the trees a green cliff side and a turquoise colored ocean sit. At the base of the trunks are flowers in shades of orange, red, green, and yellow.

Ross Caliendo

California, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

82 3/4 x 119 in (210.3 x 302.3 cm)

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Ross Caliendo

Forest, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

each: 87 5/8 x 51 1/2 in (222.6 x 130.8 cm)

Ross Caliendo

Forest, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

each: 87 5/8 x 51 1/2 in (222.6 x 130.8 cm)

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In shades of cool blue, lavender, pink, and red, this acrylic on canvas portrays a forest landscape.

Ross Caliendo

Jewelbox, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

45 3/4 x 57 3/4 in (116.2 x 146.7 cm)

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This artwork portrays three close up images of tree trunks. The top tree is colored in a muted mauve, the middle tree is a light brown, while the bottom tree is a light blue. All three trees have minimal leaves attached, in shades of faded orange and light blue. In the back ground of the top tree, the sky is a light blue with a reddish ground. The middle tree has an orange sky with a purple ground, and the bottom tree has an indigo sky and blue ground. Each image is meant to illustrate a time of day.

Ross Caliendo

Tall Triplet, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

116 3/4 x 46 3/4 in (296.5 x 118.7 cm)

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Forest scene is depicted in colors of red, green, yellow, coral, and pink. Multicolored foliage cover the middle of the forest floor while dark brown trunks rest at the sides of the canvas. The foreground of the canvas is colored red with  quick black brush strokes.

Ross Caliendo

Totem Overgrown, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

89 x 78 in (226.1 x 198.1 cm)

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This artwork uses shades of yellow, orange, red, coral ,and faded mauve to created a sunset background while vibrant green palm trees sit as the focal point of this acrylic on canvas pieces. Spots of sunset light can be seen through some of the leaves on the trees.

Ross Caliendo

California 2, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

74 3/4 x 124 1/4 in (189.9 x 315.6 cm)

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This oil and acrylic on canvas portrays a nature landscape with a slim gray colored walking path at the foreground that stretches off into the distance of a line of trees. Also in the foreground are abstract images of lines in varying shades of blue. Two large trees sit on the left side of the path while one tree is one the right. A pebbled walled rest at the middle ground of this piece. Behind the wall is a cobalt blue square, inside is an image of a tree outlined in white.

Ross Caliendo

CHOICES, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

60 3/4 x 80 1/2 in (154.3 x 204.5 cm)

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This piece consists of vivid reds, yellow, and multiple shades of pink. Together, the pigments illustrate a scene of a tree with a dark gray trunk at the center of canvas. A hill in the background and colorful fallen leaves at the foreground.

Ross Caliendo

Cream Creek, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

42 1/2 x 37 1/2 in (108 x 95.3 cm)

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This piece utilizes an array of colors such as yellow, blue, green, red, pink, orange, purple to create a scene of wild flowers and foliage. At the center is a vibrant green square with white outline image of plants and branches.

Ross Caliendo

Delights, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

53 1/4 x 64 3/4 in (135.3 x 164.5 cm)

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This oil and acrylic on canvas illustrates a landscape of a hillside in shades of green and yellow. A wide open sky in light blue and cobalt shades covers most of the canvas. Small red brush strokes dust the foreground of the work to depict flowers and foliage. At the center sits and outlined image of a wolf, with a crescent moon resting just below the animal’s right eye.

Ross Caliendo

Patience, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

77 3/4 x 65 7/8 in (197.6 x 167.4 cm)

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Ross Caliendo

Pthalo Zone, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

70 3/4 x 91 3/4 in (179.7 x 233 cm)

Ross Caliendo

Pthalo Zone, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

70 3/4 x 91 3/4 in (179.7 x 233 cm)

This oil and acrylic on canvas piece depicts a forest coastline landscape. Nearly bare trees with gray trunks lines the foreground, middle, and background of the left side of the canvas. To the right, through the trees a green cliff side and a turquoise colored ocean sit. At the base of the trunks are flowers in shades of orange, red, green, and yellow.

Ross Caliendo

California, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

82 3/4 x 119 in (210.3 x 302.3 cm)

Ross Caliendo

Forest, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

each: 87 5/8 x 51 1/2 in (222.6 x 130.8 cm)

Ross Caliendo

Forest, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

each: 87 5/8 x 51 1/2 in (222.6 x 130.8 cm)

In shades of cool blue, lavender, pink, and red, this acrylic on canvas portrays a forest landscape.

Ross Caliendo

Jewelbox, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

45 3/4 x 57 3/4 in (116.2 x 146.7 cm)

This artwork portrays three close up images of tree trunks. The top tree is colored in a muted mauve, the middle tree is a light brown, while the bottom tree is a light blue. All three trees have minimal leaves attached, in shades of faded orange and light blue. In the back ground of the top tree, the sky is a light blue with a reddish ground. The middle tree has an orange sky with a purple ground, and the bottom tree has an indigo sky and blue ground. Each image is meant to illustrate a time of day.

Ross Caliendo

Tall Triplet, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

116 3/4 x 46 3/4 in (296.5 x 118.7 cm)

Forest scene is depicted in colors of red, green, yellow, coral, and pink. Multicolored foliage cover the middle of the forest floor while dark brown trunks rest at the sides of the canvas. The foreground of the canvas is colored red with  quick black brush strokes.

Ross Caliendo

Totem Overgrown, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

89 x 78 in (226.1 x 198.1 cm)

This artwork uses shades of yellow, orange, red, coral ,and faded mauve to created a sunset background while vibrant green palm trees sit as the focal point of this acrylic on canvas pieces. Spots of sunset light can be seen through some of the leaves on the trees.

Ross Caliendo

California 2, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

74 3/4 x 124 1/4 in (189.9 x 315.6 cm)

This oil and acrylic on canvas portrays a nature landscape with a slim gray colored walking path at the foreground that stretches off into the distance of a line of trees. Also in the foreground are abstract images of lines in varying shades of blue. Two large trees sit on the left side of the path while one tree is one the right. A pebbled walled rest at the middle ground of this piece. Behind the wall is a cobalt blue square, inside is an image of a tree outlined in white.

Ross Caliendo

CHOICES, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

60 3/4 x 80 1/2 in (154.3 x 204.5 cm)

This piece consists of vivid reds, yellow, and multiple shades of pink. Together, the pigments illustrate a scene of a tree with a dark gray trunk at the center of canvas. A hill in the background and colorful fallen leaves at the foreground.

Ross Caliendo

Cream Creek, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

42 1/2 x 37 1/2 in (108 x 95.3 cm)

This piece utilizes an array of colors such as yellow, blue, green, red, pink, orange, purple to create a scene of wild flowers and foliage. At the center is a vibrant green square with white outline image of plants and branches.

Ross Caliendo

Delights, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

53 1/4 x 64 3/4 in (135.3 x 164.5 cm)

This oil and acrylic on canvas illustrates a landscape of a hillside in shades of green and yellow. A wide open sky in light blue and cobalt shades covers most of the canvas. Small red brush strokes dust the foreground of the work to depict flowers and foliage. At the center sits and outlined image of a wolf, with a crescent moon resting just below the animal’s right eye.

Ross Caliendo

Patience, 2025

oil and acrylic on canvas with artist frame

77 3/4 x 65 7/8 in (197.6 x 167.4 cm)