PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MARCH 1 FROM 6-8PM

BRADLEY McCALLUM & JACQUELINE TARRY
WHITEWASH
March 2-30, 2007

Lisa Dent Gallery
660 Mission Street, 4th Fl.
b'twn 3rd Street and New Montgomery

Lisa Dent Gallery is proud to present the work of McCallum Tarry in their first solo exhibition in San Francisco. The exhibition will include paintings from their newest series, Whitewash, as well as a video and still photographs from their recent project, Cut. At first glance, the works from the Whitewash series appear ephemeral and poetic. Using photographs mined from the archives of various national collections taken during the 1950s and 60s, closer examination reveals the tension and violence of the Civil Rights Era. Many of the photographs have been widely circulated over the last 40 years as reference points of the cultural and political upheaval occurring in the US; assassinations of political leaders, the desegregation of schools, urban rioting. McCallum and Tarry have painted the images on canvas with printed silk stretched over the surfaces. The works read as our memories, the communities and events becoming illusive and more subtle over time. In their video project, Cut, the artists themselves are shown in the process of cutting each other'€™s hair. Instead of the comfort of a barber'€™s chair or the use of fine scissors, the artist'€™s instead are revealed half dressed in a seemingly vast, dilapidated room, using only a small razor blade to remove their hair. Their actions are unsettling and rough at one moment, gentle and erotic the next, leaving a work that is €œsexually charged, racially fraught and emotionally complex.€ Cut was created during a recent residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. Bradley McCallum received his BFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and his MFA from Yale University. Jacqueline Tarry received her BA in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was a 2003 participant in the Whitney Museum'€™s Independent Study Program. The artists live and work in Brooklyn, NY. Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 12:00-6:00pm and by appointment Lisa Dent Gallery Website