2012 was a watershed year for Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry with their work being included in the 11th Havana Biennial: Artistic Practices and Social Imaginaries, a solo exhibition in the summer called "Wade in the Water" that showed their new large-scale paintings at the Zidoun Gallery in Luxembourg and finally a survey exhibition, "McCallum Tarry: Intersections", at the Burchfield Penny Center in Buffalo, NY, Jacqueline's home town. This exhibition combined new work by Jacqueline that examined the personal photographic archive of family and neighbors to create a series of works that speaks to the promise and loss of a post-industrial city — with work from each of the series of the artists 13-year collaboration.
Intersections opened on September 15th, the same day that Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry closed on purchasing two floors of a three-story building in Brooklyn, NY. A major renovation of this property consumed the fall and early winter — establishing new studios and storage spaces for both artists, with the second phase of the renovations planned for the fall of 2013.
In November, Bradley McCallum made his first trip to the Hague to cultivate a new project that will examine the city as a site for international justice; and was there on the occasion of the 10 year meeting of the International Criminal Court. More to come on this front in 2013.
2013 began with a solo exhibition, “In Latitudes Where Storms Are Born”, at the Greenfield Community College, Art Gallery, in Greenfield, MA. In May, McCallum installed an exhibition in Harftord’s Burns Latino Studies Academy of his 1996, “The Manhole Cover Project: A Gun Legacy”. This work was originally installed at the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford Ct, as a counter point to the museum’s decorative arts exhibition of the collections of Sam and Elizabeth Colt, and combined Manhole covers made from confiscated guns with testimony. Now, 17-years latter, this exhibition is the first in a series of collaborations with the Hartford Public Schools, the Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford Children’s Hospital to explore the history of this project and the ongoing impact of gun violence on the city, state and nation.
It is also important to note that the Burchfield Penny Center along with the Contemporary Museum will publish a monograph of McCallum and Tarry's work in 2013, and this summer the artists will work closely with the designer to realize this important publication which received early support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lambent Foundation.
Intersections opened on September 15th, the same day that Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry closed on purchasing two floors of a three-story building in Brooklyn, NY. A major renovation of this property consumed the fall and early winter — establishing new studios and storage spaces for both artists, with the second phase of the renovations planned for the fall of 2013.
In November, Bradley McCallum made his first trip to the Hague to cultivate a new project that will examine the city as a site for international justice; and was there on the occasion of the 10 year meeting of the International Criminal Court. More to come on this front in 2013.
2013 began with a solo exhibition, “In Latitudes Where Storms Are Born”, at the Greenfield Community College, Art Gallery, in Greenfield, MA. In May, McCallum installed an exhibition in Harftord’s Burns Latino Studies Academy of his 1996, “The Manhole Cover Project: A Gun Legacy”. This work was originally installed at the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford Ct, as a counter point to the museum’s decorative arts exhibition of the collections of Sam and Elizabeth Colt, and combined Manhole covers made from confiscated guns with testimony. Now, 17-years latter, this exhibition is the first in a series of collaborations with the Hartford Public Schools, the Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford Children’s Hospital to explore the history of this project and the ongoing impact of gun violence on the city, state and nation.
It is also important to note that the Burchfield Penny Center along with the Contemporary Museum will publish a monograph of McCallum and Tarry's work in 2013, and this summer the artists will work closely with the designer to realize this important publication which received early support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lambent Foundation.