mccallum

Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry are artists who began their collaboration in 1998 with Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence. The husband-and-wife team work nationally and travel globally to engage with subject matter and images of pressing, and at times controversial, civic concerns for their large-scale projects. They are committed to creating compelling public art that addresses issues of race and social justice.

In their work, McCallum & Tarry have developed the concept of performative sculpture, reflecting the complexity of changing social issues both over time and from site to site. McCallum & Tarry’s work Endurance, photographic portraits and video of homeless youth was recently shown at the Marvelli Gallery in New York and Connor Contemporary Art in Washington DC. Endurance is currently installed in Newark NJ at the Aljira Center for Art and in Japan at the Tokyo Wonder Site and Nichido Contemporary Art galleries with exhibitions planned for the Netherlands, China and Ireland in the next year. The couple lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and maintains a studio in Beijing, China.

"ENDURANCE"

Civic Endurance is Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry’s series of life-size color photographs and a video that together document a 25-hour endurance performance with homeless Seattle teenagers. The portraits were taken minutes before each youth took part in the endurance performance, and after they gave their testimony during an audio taped interview.

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We are currently artists in residents at the Headlands Center for the Arts located in across the bay from San Francisco working on a series of self-portrait performance and photography works as well as new works exploring youth culture in Tokyo, Japan; Ireland and Philadelphia.

What do you think is the most pressing social issue in this moment?

Tarry: Historical and cultural amnesia. We seem to forget history even as it is being shoved in our faces.

McCallum: The global impact of the Bush presidency.

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Luis Bunuel’s film, Belle de Jour

“Fado Hip-Hop & The Blues,” choreography by Donald Byrd

Figuratively, exhibit at The Studio Museum in Harlem

Michael Moore’s film, Farenheit 9/11

Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, exhibition catalogue

Joe Ovelman, exhibition recently presented at Oliver Kamm, 5BE Gallery, NYC

Adam Pendleton, exhibition, recently presented at Wallspace Gallery, NYC

Aleksandr Sokurov’s films, Mother and Son and Russian Ark

Imani Uzuri, Her Holy Water: A Black Girl’s Rock Opera the Blue Note

Kehinde Wiley, exhibition recently presented by Jeffery Diech in Miami, FL