Stay With Me, Baby by The Bruce High Quality Foundation

About

Alexander Dellal, CFA and Vito Schnabel are pleased to present the solo exhibition "Stay With Me, Baby" by The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
The exhibition features an animatronic installation of singing union rats as well as a single large silkscreen painting from the group's ongoing History Painting series.

Context:

Lorraine Ellison recorded "Stay With Me Baby" in 1966.

In January of 1966, New York City transportation workers go on strike
for two weeks.

In 1983 Ellison dies from ovarian cancer after giving up her music career to take care of her dying mother.

The first use of the inflatable union rat dates to 1991 in Chicago.

In February of 1991, a Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.

About the Bruce High Quality Foundation

The Bruce High Quality Foundation creates installations, videos, paintings, sculptures, performances, and institutions that reveal our collective creative agency within the seemingly monolithic forces of art and social history.
In 2009 The Foundation founded BHQFU, an experimental art school in downtown Manhattan. In 2010 the Foundation was included in The Whitney Biennial while simultaneously hosting the Brucennial: 2010.
Recent projects include "The Retrospective:2010" at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, "Argumenta" at the 2011 Venice Biennale; "Teach 4 Amerika," a national arts education tour; and the Brucennial 2012. In June of 2012 the foundation will open a solo exhibition at New York's Lever House.