Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry have worked and exhibited their work internationally. Through their large-scale public projects, performative sculpture, painting, photography, video, and self-portraiture, they explore complex issues revolving around marginalized members of society. They also challenge audiences to face issues of race and social justice in communities, history, and the family. Embedded within their work, whether it is of an historical, personal, or civic-based nature, is their ability to address the complicated and layered issues of race and power as a mixed-race artists collaborative.
Man and Woman with Dignity are from Whitewash, a series of paintings that examines the history of race in the United States through the depiction of social injustices that occurred during the Civil Rights era. A striking combination of painting and photography, the artists’ distinctive process for this series was inspired by the concept of “whitewashing” as a means of masking the truth. With an almost three-dimensional effect, these doubled images stand as a visual metaphor for the variety of ways that memory and history are both similar and different.
