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February 5th, 2017 - Columbia Tribune - Still life: Installation calls viewers to slow down, remember black lives
McCartney’s latest installation, housed at the University of Missouri’s George Caleb Bingham Gallery, literally weaves together emotion and expression. It displays the intimacy wrapped up in a life lost, and the importance that looms when loss of life becomes normal. A makeshift memorial for black Americans lost to police violence, the exhibit gives viewers space to sit — with their grief, with their questions, with their confusion, with one another.
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February 28th, 2016 - LaVelle Productions - No Visible Light Reaches the Eye
In honor of Black History Month LaVelle Productions is proud to present No Visible Light Reaches The Eye. This feature explores an installation created by Philadelphia based artist, Gaelen McCartney, expressing current thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement. Music: Ambiment - The Ambient by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
February 23rd, 2016 - The Temple News - The fabric of diversity: discussing racial divisions
Gaelen McCartney, a senior fibers and material studies major, displayed his BFA senior thesis project, No Visible Light Reaches the Eye last Wednesday through Friday in the Tyler School of Art. As a part of his project, students participated in a discussion about the Black Lives Matter movement on Thursday. The stuffed animals and candles on the floor of the gallery were meant to resemble “those roadside memorials that we see in neighborhoods after gun violence or someone passing away,” McCartney said.
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