I’m With Stupid
September 17 - October 24th, 2004
In 1993, Bruce Tapola, Melba Price and their then six-year old daughter Oakley exhibited the collaborative installation ‘I Wuv You” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The family inhabited (so to speak) the gallery, using painted image, text, and object to create a highly stylized environment that spoke to both familial and evolutionary history.
Ten years later, the family exhibits again, continuing to explore the idea of the family as art. Any individual experiences transition and progression throughout his/her lifetime; it is the unique circumstance of the artist that his work is simultaneously documentation of his progress. For the Tapola-Price trio, work is not simply a document for a single person, but the intricate system that is family; in other words, it is the installation as home video, or vacation slide show
Artists
Melba Price
Bruce Tapola
Oakley Price
- Samantha French (2008/Toomer)
- Ben Garthus (2008 Window)
- Holiday Show (2007)
- Alison Hiltner (2007/Toomer)
- Friends with You (2007)
- Judith Levy (2007/Toomer)
- Sashion Flow (2007)
- Kii - Oops...Its Art! (2007/Toomer)
- Untitled 6 (2007)
- Dan Monick: Pictures of People... (2007/Toomer)
- Kozyndan (2007/Toomer)
- Deuce Seven (2006/Toomer)
- Quantum Circus (2006
- Sashion Flow (2006)
- Culture Cop: Andrea Carlson (2006)
- Juxtapoz (2006)
- Untitled V (2006)
- Jaron Childs: Ruptures (2006)
- Bunny
- 3
- Untitled IV
- 7th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection
- Looking is Stealing
- Draw
- I’m With Stupid
- Soo VAC/Moxie Style + Fashion Show
- Untitled 3
- Hysteria
- 2 Solos: Sean Connaughty, Lee Anne Swanson-Peet
- Token Male
- Untitled 2
- Altoids’ Curiously Strong Collection
- Comfort Food
- Imitations
- Twins
- Untitled 1
- Abjectify
- Hush
- Flesh Fervor Fancy
- do it