Stephen Slappe

We Are Legion

Stephen Slappe creates a never-ending army of costumed youth in a web project that mines your photo albums for evidence of what the artist calls “contemporary cultural indoctrination." For TBA, Slappe will set up stations, online and in person, in order to collect images of you and yours in Halloween garb. He will string these images together into a scrolling defense line of masked society. We Are Legion addresses personal history and pop culture nostalgia, and plays with the technological innovations that allow for rapid sharing of personal images. Slappe's work blends humor, absurdity, and anxiety in order to reflect upon notions of home, transience, and physical and psychological escape.

Stephen Slappe is an artist and curator whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the South Carolina State Museum; The Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow; The Sarai Media Lab in Delhi; Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco; and The Art Gym at Marylhurst University in Portland, OR. Slappe was the recipient of a Couture award from the New American Art Union in Portland for his 2009 exhibition entitled Shelter in Place.

Submit your images online at www.welcometothelegion.org or submit your images in person at THE WORKS at Washington High School.

Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13 . Every Day, 12 - 6:30 pm
Sept 17 - Oct 18 . Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm; Sat - Sun . 12 - 4 pm

www.stephenslappe.com