Bradley McCallum
Bradley
McCallum received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University
in 1989 and his MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art in
1992. During the past decade he has created site-specific community
based artworks built from a collaborative process of gathering
oral histories and testimonies that are then utilizes as the primary
material for his sculptural installations. His past works include
an installation at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford CT titled,
The Manhole Cover Project: a Gun Legacy, a work that juxtaposed
utility covers made from confiscated fire arms with the audio
recordings of those who have been impacted by gun violence. His
work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions
nationally. Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence, a
work in collaboration with Jacqueline Tarry, is McCallum's first
public project in New York City.
Bradley McCallum's resume
Jacqueline Tarry
Jacqueline
Tarry brings to the visual arts a background in both philosophy
and logic, two influences which inform her conceptual art practice.
Her Bachelor of the Arts degree in philosophy, from State University
College in her native Buffalo, New York. Raised in a racially
diverse urban environment, Tarry approaches artistic production
with an acute awareness of urban dynamics and the role of violence
and conflict in inner city neighborhoods.
Witness:
Perspectives on Police Violence represents Jacqueline Tarry's
first formal collaboration with Bradley McCallum as well as her
first experience creating public art. Over the past several years,
Tarry and McCallum have developed this work previewing it in Boston's
Kings Chapel, as fellows at the Institute on the Arts and Civic
Dialogue at Harvard University. The work culminated in an installation
within the sanctuary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in
November and December of 1999. They share a goal of creating public
art that addresses sociopolitical issues through the infusion
of art and public discourse.
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