Born St Paul鈥檚 Cray, England, in 1946. Lives and works in Manhattan.
McCall is known for his 鈥榮olid-light鈥 installations, a series that he began in 1973 with 鈥淟ine Describing a Cone,鈥 in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in dark, three-dimensional space.
Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, his work鈥檚 historical importance has been recognized in such exhibitions as 鈥淚nto the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-77,鈥 Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-2); 鈥淭he Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies,鈥 Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003-4); 鈥淭he Expanded Eye,鈥 Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); 鈥淏eyond Cinema: the Art of Projection,鈥 Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006-7); and 鈥淭he Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image,鈥 Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2008).