ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My paintings and animations present iconic moments from film and art history. Each work is based on a fleeting pictorial moment such as a film still or grainy photograph. To create the work I translate the degraded image into a richer and often imagined pictorial space. The intrusion of deer can be read as interruptions of the expected narrative, metaphysical projections of the mysterious and unknown. Source material such as Hitchcock films or outdated art forums serves to explore the photographic moment and its relationship to memory, history and collective experience.

Patte Loper

Education
1997 MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
1990 Bachelor of Science, Graphic Design, Florida State University



Solo Exhibitions and Projects:
2007
A New Way North, Lyonswier Ortt Contemporary, New York, New york

2006
Let Our Beauty Ease Your Grief, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005
Everything Beautiful is Far Away, Lyonswier - Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY

2002
Octet, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Monster, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2001
Monster, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA

2000
The Treachery of Alice Grymeston, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

1998
Terra Incognita, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

1997
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason Herbst Pavillion, San Francisco, CA



Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects:
2007
A House is not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, New York
Farewell 511, Lyonswier-Ortt Contemporary, New York, New York
Feminism ain’t An Aesthetic, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe New Mexico
Tres Personi: Patte Loper, The Flat – Massimo Carasi Milan, Italy
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Infrequently Asked Questions, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY

2006
Pixel Dolls, Meat-Space and Everything All At Once, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
The Social History of Objects, TripleCandie, New York, NY
Word, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Portfolio One, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, Northeast Edition, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

2005
Partners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington
Bilingual: A Screening of Film and Video Projects that Exist Within the
Framework of Painting and Drawing, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Five Painters, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Four-color Pen Show, Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004
Northwest Biennial: Building Wise, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Contemporary Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA
Artist Trust Annual Auction, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
Four-color Pen Show, The General Store, Milwaukee, WI
Pseudononymous, 1506 Projects, Seattle, WA
Print Portfolio, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Group Show, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY


2003
Project Wall, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY
SOIL Art Auction, SOIL, Seattle, WA
They Shoot Painters, Don’t They? Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
11 Faculty, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA

2002
Now in Residence, Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Group Show, OSP Gallery, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, Northwest Edition, Open Studios Press, 2006
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2001
Operating Systems, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA
Jewelry as an Object of Installation, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Art Department Faculty Show, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University

2000
Perches in the Soul, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
From the Back Room, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

1998
Over Easy, Savoring the Feminine, Gallery 1078, Chico, CA,
A Spoon Full of Sugar, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Figuring the Decorative – The Body Meets Pattern and Decoration, Diego
Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small Works – The Sequel, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Shrink, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

1997
Mirror, Mirror; current Reflections on Self Portraiture, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Curator: J.H. Beltran, essay written by Donald Kuspit
Naturaleza Muerta: Dead Nature, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

1996
San Francisco Art Institute Spring Show, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
NAACP Emerging Artists Show, Center for the Arts at Yuerba Buena Gerdens, San Francisco, CA

Grants and Awards:
2006
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2002
Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship.
Summer Research Leave Grant, College of Graduate Studies, CWU
2001
Juror’s Award, Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA Juror: Michael Sweney, Director of Charles Cowles Gallery, NY
Summer Creativity Grant College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University
1999
Len Thayer Small Grants, Central Washington University

Selected Bibliography:
Sara S. King, Santa Fe Summer Preview, Art In America, June 1, 2007
Ben Davis, “Scope Hampered?” Artnet Magazine, July 20, 2006
Lucia Enriquez, “Bats and cats in root beer and deer, deer everywhere”,
The Seattle Times, June 9, 2006
Jen Graves, “Into the woods”, The Stranger, June 1 – June 7 2006
Regina Hackett, “Galleries explore a new world of landscapes”, Seattle Post-Intelligencr, June 9, 2006
Molly Norris, Let’s Face the Easel and Dance, Art Access, http://www.artaccess.com, November 2005
Andrew Engelson, Five Painters, Seattle Weekly, July 13 – 19, 2005
Ruth Graham, “Art Calendar”, New York Sun, April 14, 2005
Judy Wagonfeld, “Innovative Pieces rise above the Rigid Foundation of
‘Buildingwise’”, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 30, 2004
Emily Hall “Art News”, The Stranger, February 12-18 2004, 40
Emily Hall “The Stranger Suggests”, The Stranger, February 5-11 2004, 23
Amy Berk “New York Notebook”, Stretcher, www.stretcher.org, September 25, 2003
Matthew Kangas, “Respite from the Cold and Gray in Belltown”, The Seattle Times, December 5, 2003
Randy Wood, “The Armory Show”, Tablet Magazine, March 2003
Maria Porges, “Jewelry as Installation”, American Craft, February/March 2002, 74.
Olga Azar, “ ‘Monster’ an elegant meeting of art and mind,” Mill Valley Herald, February 5 – 11, 2002, 1.
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Competition Vol. 6, January 2002
Meredith Goldsmith, “She’s a Superfreak” Chico Examiner, Chico, CA, November 2001
Art In America Annual Guide 2001-2002, Artists Index
Matthew Kangas, “Northwest Annual 2001” Seattle Times, Friday, June 1, 2001
Regina Hackett, “Warehouse is going out with artistic flair” Seattle Post-
Intelligencer, Sunday, May 25, 2001
Art In America Annual Guide 2000-2001, Artists Index
Art in America Annual Guide 1999-2000, Artists Index
I magazine, exhibition announcement with photograph, San Francisco, CA Spring 1999, 14.
The River Styx, Formal Poetry Issue, Vol. 53 cover art with bibliography, 1998, front and back cover, 78.
Dale Kern, “Gem of a Show” Marin Independent Journal, Monday, August 4, 1997, E3.

Visiting Artist Lectures:
2006 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art of the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
2003 Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2002 University of California, Berkeley Extension Program, San Francisco, CA
2000 Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
1999 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
1997 Delancy Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections:
Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA
Rene di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH