Dreamsong’s family exhibition, Kooks, features artists Bruce Tapola, Melba Price and their daughter Oakley Tapola. Longstanding and irascible members of the Twin Cities’ art community, Bruce and Melba’s independent DIY ethic and distrust of American moralism was forged as art students during the gleefully conformist years of the Reagan administrations. An inheritance passed to their daughter, whose work in assemblage, bookmaking and clothing design is also irreverent and handcrafted, Kooks evidences the paradoxical wholesomeness of a family thoroughly opposed to the imposition of so-called ‘family values’ by an increasingly authoritarian American state.

Installation view, Kooks.