Patte Loper is an interdisciplinary artist based in painting who experiments with sculpture and video. She was born in Colorado and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, a subtropical college town where she first developed an appreciation for the ways nature and culture can overlap. She currently lives and works in New York City and Boston, MA where she is on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
Her practice began exclusively with conceptually based figurative painting and the work morphed over time into an experimental practice that utilizes painting, drawing, video, installation, and performance. Her early work involved re-creating masterworks with an eye towards feminist re-interpretation. Deeply rooted in painting’s discourse, her current practice uses painterly logic to create three dimensional structures that evoke landscape and still life and link early and midcentury formalism, architectural theory, and utopian idealism. Recent exhibitions have considered the ethics of architecture, the relationship between social justice and climate change, sustainable energy technology, and intersectionality in Arab and Western identity.
She has shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Drawing Center in New York, The Bronx Museum, The Licini Museum in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, LMCC's Art Center on Governor's Island New York, the Juliette Art Museum at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, the PalaentologicalMuseum in Cortina, Italy, the Tacoma Art Museum, Suyama Space in Seattle, WA, and the Zuckerman Museum in Atlanta, GA. Her work has been reviewed in the Italian edition of Flash Art, Artnet, Time Out, Chicago, and the Boston Globe, and is in the collections of the Rene di Rosa Foundation, the Microsoft Corporation, and the Hirshhorn Museum.
She has participated in residency fellowships at Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Center’s Swing Space, and was a participant in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program 2014-2016. She is currently a member artist of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program.
Education
MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, 1997
BS, Graphic Design, Florida State University, 1990
Post-Baccalaureate Study, Painting, Printmaking, University of Florida 1994-1995
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Visit to a Small Planet, Juliette Art Museum, The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
Sparkly Darkly, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Great Poor Farm Experiment VI, The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI (curated by Brad Killiam and Michelle Grabner)
Testing Ten Artists, Licini Museum, Ascoli Piceno, Italy (curated by Christian Caliandro)
Her practice began exclusively with conceptually based figurative painting and the work morphed over time into an experimental practice that utilizes painting, drawing, video, installation, and performance. Her early work involved re-creating masterworks with an eye towards feminist re-interpretation. Deeply rooted in painting’s discourse, her current practice uses painterly logic to create three dimensional structures that evoke landscape and still life and link early and midcentury formalism, architectural theory, and utopian idealism. Recent exhibitions have considered the ethics of architecture, the relationship between social justice and climate change, sustainable energy technology, and intersectionality in Arab and Western identity.
She has shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Drawing Center in New York, The Bronx Museum, The Licini Museum in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, LMCC's Art Center on Governor's Island New York, the Juliette Art Museum at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, the PalaentologicalMuseum in Cortina, Italy, the Tacoma Art Museum, Suyama Space in Seattle, WA, and the Zuckerman Museum in Atlanta, GA. Her work has been reviewed in the Italian edition of Flash Art, Artnet, Time Out, Chicago, and the Boston Globe, and is in the collections of the Rene di Rosa Foundation, the Microsoft Corporation, and the Hirshhorn Museum.
She has participated in residency fellowships at Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Center’s Swing Space, and was a participant in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program 2014-2016. She is currently a member artist of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program.
Education
MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, 1997
BS, Graphic Design, Florida State University, 1990
Post-Baccalaureate Study, Painting, Printmaking, University of Florida 1994-1995
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Visit to a Small Planet, Juliette Art Museum, The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
Sparkly Darkly, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Seeking Higher Ground, Suyama Space, Seattle WA (catalog)
From There to Here, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)
Seeking Higher Ground, Suyama Space, Seattle WA (catalog)
From There to Here, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA (catalog)
2014
Your Margins, Your Rivers, Your Diminutive Villages, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (catalog)
2013
How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011
Still Point of the Returning World, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010
The Sky is Burning, The Sea Aflame, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Empire, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2009
For a Thousand Summers, Judi Rotenberg Gallery Boston, MA
2008
2013
How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011
Still Point of the Returning World, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2010
The Sky is Burning, The Sea Aflame, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Empire, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2009
For a Thousand Summers, Judi Rotenberg Gallery Boston, MA
2008
A Peculiar Brightness in the Sky, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pulse Art Fair, solo project, Lyons Weir Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
2007
2007
A New Way North, Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
2006
2006
Let Our Beauty Ease Your Grief, Platform Gallery, Seattle
2005
2005
Everything Beautiful is Far Away, Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
2002
2002
Octet, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
Monster, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2001
Monster, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2001
Monster, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
2000
2000
The Treachery of Alice Grymeston, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Post-Election Show, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
Empathy and Craft in the 21st Century, National Gallery of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Art, AIDS, America, Alphawood Foundation Gallery, Chicago, IL
Violence Transformed, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts Art Gallery, Medford, MA
2016
Art, AIDS, America, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (catalog)
Art, AIDS, America, Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta, GA
Temporary Structures and Home Communities, University of Jordan, Jordan. (collaboration with Khaldoun Hijazine, Ethan Murrow, Diala Al Dahlise, and University of Amman students)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Post-Election Show, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
Empathy and Craft in the 21st Century, National Gallery of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Art, AIDS, America, Alphawood Foundation Gallery, Chicago, IL
Violence Transformed, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts Art Gallery, Medford, MA
2016
Art, AIDS, America, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (catalog)
Art, AIDS, America, Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta, GA
Temporary Structures and Home Communities, University of Jordan, Jordan. (collaboration with Khaldoun Hijazine, Ethan Murrow, Diala Al Dahlise, and University of Amman students)
2015
Name It by Trying to Name It, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
ArtAIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum and traveling to the the Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta (curated by Rock Huschka, chief curator and curator of contemporary and Northwest art at Tacoma Art Museum and Dr. Jonathan Katz, director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo SUNY) (catalog)
Name It by Trying to Name It, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
ArtAIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum and traveling to the the Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta (curated by Rock Huschka, chief curator and curator of contemporary and Northwest art at Tacoma Art Museum and Dr. Jonathan Katz, director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the University at Buffalo SUNY) (catalog)
Narrative Axis, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2014
Open Sessions 2, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Exchange Rates/Bushwick Expo, Installation in collaboration with Frances Disley, Schema Projects (in conjunction with Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA and Paper Gallery, Manchester, UK), Brooklyn, NYThe Great Poor Farm Experiment VI, The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI (curated by Brad Killiam and Michelle Grabner)
Testing Ten Artists, Licini Museum, Ascoli Piceno, Italy (curated by Christian Caliandro)
DeStilled Lives, Spaces, Cleveland, OH (curated by Kristen Rogers)
2013
La Cura della Sguardo/the Care of the Gaze, project Dolomiti Contemporanee Cortina d'Ampezzo at th PalaentologicalMuseum, Cortina, Italy
2013
Archipelago, Wesbeth Gallery (curated by Kaegan Sparks) New York, NY
2012
Elles, Platform Gallery (in conjunction with Elles, Women Artists from the Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum) Seattle, WA
Building 110: Governor's Island, LMCC, New York, NY (catalogue)
Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Forms in Flux, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
2011
Building 110: Governor's Island, LMCC, New York, NY (catalogue)
Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Forms in Flux, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
2011
24/7, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2010
2010
If on a winter’s night, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Secret Language of Animals, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
A Separate Peace, curated by Anna Ortt and Shane McAdams, McNeil Art Group Project Space, New York, NY
The World is not Enough, online exhibition curated by Carl J. Ferrero
All in the Family, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Exhibition, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2009
The Secret Language of Animals, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
A Separate Peace, curated by Anna Ortt and Shane McAdams, McNeil Art Group Project Space, New York, NY
The World is not Enough, online exhibition curated by Carl J. Ferrero
All in the Family, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Exhibition, The Flat – Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2009
The There, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Colletiva, The Flat – Massimo Carasi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Colletiva, The Flat – Massimo Carasi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2007
Bilingual, Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
A House is not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Meconio, GASP Gallery, Boston, MA
Farewell 511, Lyons Weir Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
Feminism ain’t An Aesthetic, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
Tres Personi: The Flat, Massimo Carasi Milan, Italy
Infrequently Asked Questions, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
2006
A House is not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Meconio, GASP Gallery, Boston, MA
Farewell 511, Lyons Weir Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
Feminism ain’t An Aesthetic, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
Tres Personi: The Flat, Massimo Carasi Milan, Italy
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
2005
The Social History of Objects, TripleCandie, New York, NY
Word, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Portfolio One, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
2005
Partners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
5 Painters, Platform Gallery, Seattle
Four-Color Pen Show, Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago
2004
5 Painters, Platform Gallery, Seattle
Four-Color Pen Show, Van Harrison Gallery, Chicago
2004
Four-Color Pen Show, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Pseudononymous, 1506 Projects, Seattle
Pseudononymous, 1506 Projects, Seattle
Print Portfolio, Platform Gallery, Seattle
Selections, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York
Northwest Biennial: Building Wise, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Contemporary Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA
2003
Selections, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York
Northwest Biennial: Building Wise, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Contemporary Perspectives, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Sonoma, CA
2003
Project Wall, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York, NY
They Shoot Painters, Don’t They?, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
11 Faculty, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
2002
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, NM
Group Show, OSP Gallery, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2001
Group Show, OSP Gallery, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
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
2000
Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA
Jewelry as an Object of Installation, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2000
Perches in the Soul, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
From the Back Room, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1998
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
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
Video Screenings
2018
Good New From Outer Space, in collaboration with performance duo 2Squared Andrew Ranaudo and Nicole Brancato. Performances at Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY, Delaware Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY, and Arete’ Venue and Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Open Sessions Screening, Queens Museum, Queens NY
2011
A Spoon Full of Sugar, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
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
Video Screenings
2018
Good New From Outer Space, in collaboration with performance duo 2Squared Andrew Ranaudo and Nicole Brancato. Performances at Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY, Delaware Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY, and Arete’ Venue and Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Open Sessions Screening, Queens Museum, Queens NY
2011
Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2010
2010
Salon del Mobile, Milan, Italy
2009
2009
Film Night: Short Films by Contemporary New York Artists, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2005
2005
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
Selected Bibliography
Anna Taylor, “Art Deconstructed: Sci-fi Clay Center installation reflects WV landscape, Charleston Gazette-Mail, May 13, 2017
Stephen Barry, “Sparkly Darkly – Patte Loper – The Black and White Gallery”, Arte Fuse, March 13, 2017
Jen Graves, “The 79 moments in Art That Helped us Survive 2016, The Stranger Magazine, December 21, 2016
Matthew Kangas, “From There to Here or How to Let a Peculiar Still Point and Brightness in the Woods Ease Our Grief (While Seeking Higher Ground in the Sky)”, Art LTD Magazine, August 9, 2016
Nova Benway, Co-Curator of the Open Sessions Program, Drawing Center, NY "Patte Loper's Seeking Higher Ground", Catalog Essay, Suyama Space, June, 2016
Rock Hushka, Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum "Reconstructing the Ideals of Modernism", Catalogue Essay, Platform Gallery, May 2016
Michael Upchurch, "How AIDS changed American art: Tacoma Art Museum show charts responses to the HIV crisis", The Seattle Times, October 18, 2015
Steve Bennett "Blue Star exhibit pushes boundaries of Drawing: 'Narrative Axis' challenges tradition", San Antonio Express-News, September 8, 2015
Selected Bibliography
Anna Taylor, “Art Deconstructed: Sci-fi Clay Center installation reflects WV landscape, Charleston Gazette-Mail, May 13, 2017
Stephen Barry, “Sparkly Darkly – Patte Loper – The Black and White Gallery”, Arte Fuse, March 13, 2017
Jen Graves, “The 79 moments in Art That Helped us Survive 2016, The Stranger Magazine, December 21, 2016
Matthew Kangas, “From There to Here or How to Let a Peculiar Still Point and Brightness in the Woods Ease Our Grief (While Seeking Higher Ground in the Sky)”, Art LTD Magazine, August 9, 2016
Nova Benway, Co-Curator of the Open Sessions Program, Drawing Center, NY "Patte Loper's Seeking Higher Ground", Catalog Essay, Suyama Space, June, 2016
Rock Hushka, Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum "Reconstructing the Ideals of Modernism", Catalogue Essay, Platform Gallery, May 2016
Michael Upchurch, "How AIDS changed American art: Tacoma Art Museum show charts responses to the HIV crisis", The Seattle Times, October 18, 2015
Steve Bennett "Blue Star exhibit pushes boundaries of Drawing: 'Narrative Axis' challenges tradition", San Antonio Express-News, September 8, 2015
"Videos by Patter Loper 2009-2011", The Bottom Line, The Drawing Center Website, November 25, 2014
http://thebottomline.drawingcenter.org/2014/11/25/videos-by-patte-loper-2009-2011
Christian Caliandro, "Le Stick Things Di True Detective", Minima & Moralia, November 17, 2014, http://www.minimaetmoralia.it/wp/true-detective
Helga Marsala, "Contemporary Dolomites 2013. The eruption continues" Artribune Magazine, August 9, 2013
“Project Building 110”, LMCC Catalogue, Essay by Melissa Levin, January 2013
http://thebottomline.drawingcenter.org/2014/11/25/videos-by-patte-loper-2009-2011
Christian Caliandro, "Le Stick Things Di True Detective", Minima & Moralia, November 17, 2014, http://www.minimaetmoralia.it/wp/true-detective
Evin Billington, Artist Blends Found Objects with Traditional Painting, The Ithacan, February 19, 2014
Leah Modigliani, "The Thin Crust of the World: Patte Loper's Dismantled Landscapes", Catalog Essay, Ithaca College, Jan 2014Helga Marsala, "Contemporary Dolomites 2013. The eruption continues" Artribune Magazine, August 9, 2013
“Project Building 110”, LMCC Catalogue, Essay by Melissa Levin, January 2013
Erin Langner, “Patte Loper’s Cinematic Curiosities”, New American Paintings, October 24, 2011
Kelton Sears, “The Stranger Suggests: Patte Loper”, The Stranger, October 6, 2011
Nicola Cechelli, “Edward Rosario/Patte Loper”, Flash Art, Italian Edition, April, 2010
Beatrice Ghiglione, “Empire. Ambizioni di conquista e paura del commando” Teknomedia, February 24, 2010
Brian Miller, “Visual Arts: Navigating by Memory”, Seattle Weekly, December 22, 2009
Regina Hackett, “Patte Loper's current landscape work has a unique appeal” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 10, 2008
Sheila Farr, “Even in the depths of darkness, a little lightness finds a way in” Seattle Times, June 27, 2008
Ruth Lopez. “Hybrid Transmission: Tradition and Technology Merge at Glass Curtain’s ‘Bilingual,’” Time Out Chicago, November 22, 2007
Cate McQuaid. “She Takes Control With Her Bodies of Work,” Boston Globe, Nov. 8, 2007
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-Intelligencer, June 9, 2006
Molly Norris. “Let’s Face the Easel and Dance,” Art Access, 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
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
I magazine, exhibition announcement with photograph, San Francisco, CA Spring 1999, 14.
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2018
Yaddo Visual Arts Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
2016-2018
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, New York, NY
2017
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences Exhibition Residency and Purchase Award,Charleston, WV
Grant in Aid Faculty Research Awards Committee Grant, Tufts University
2016
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant Award
2014-2016
Kelton Sears, “The Stranger Suggests: Patte Loper”, The Stranger, October 6, 2011
Nicola Cechelli, “Edward Rosario/Patte Loper”, Flash Art, Italian Edition, April, 2010
Beatrice Ghiglione, “Empire. Ambizioni di conquista e paura del commando” Teknomedia, February 24, 2010
Brian Miller, “Visual Arts: Navigating by Memory”, Seattle Weekly, December 22, 2009
Regina Hackett, “Patte Loper's current landscape work has a unique appeal” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 10, 2008
Sheila Farr, “Even in the depths of darkness, a little lightness finds a way in” Seattle Times, June 27, 2008
Ruth Lopez. “Hybrid Transmission: Tradition and Technology Merge at Glass Curtain’s ‘Bilingual,’” Time Out Chicago, November 22, 2007
Cate McQuaid. “She Takes Control With Her Bodies of Work,” Boston Globe, Nov. 8, 2007
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-Intelligencer, June 9, 2006
Molly Norris. “Let’s Face the Easel and Dance,” Art Access, 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
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
I magazine, exhibition announcement with photograph, San Francisco, CA Spring 1999, 14.
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2018
Yaddo Visual Arts Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
2016-2018
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, New York, NY
2017
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences Exhibition Residency and Purchase Award,Charleston, WV
Grant in Aid Faculty Research Awards Committee Grant, Tufts University
2016
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant Award
2014-2016
Drawing Center Open Sessions Program
2014
Daynard Faculty Travel Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship
2013
Millay Colony Residency Fellowship
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency Fellowship
2012
2012
LMCC Swing Space Governor’s Island Residency Award
2011
2011
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship
2004 – 07, 14
Faculty Enrichment Grant, SMFA
2002
2004 – 07, 14
Faculty Enrichment Grant, SMFA
2002
Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship
Research Leave Grant, College of Graduate Studies Central Washington University
2001
Research Leave Grant, College of Graduate Studies Central Washington University
2001
Summer Creativity Grant, College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University
Professional Experience
2016-Present
Professor of the Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2016-Present
Professor of the Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2015 – 2018
Department Chair, Drawing and Painting, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
Department Chair, Drawing and Painting, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2004 - 2016
Regular and Graduate Faculty, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2007 - 10, 2011 - 12
Area Head, Painting, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1999 - 2004
Assistant Professor, Art Department, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
1996 - 1999
Extension Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
Visiting Artist Lectures/Critiques/Juries
2016
Artist Talk, Florida State University Department of Art Visiting Artist Series, Tallahassee, FL
2014
Artist Talk, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2012
Artist Talk, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Panelist, Connecticut Office of the Arts FY Fellowship Awards
Panelist, Conveyer Arts, Hoboken, NJ
Artist Talk, The New School, New York, NY
Critiques, Award Jury, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2006
Juror, Alden B. Dow Museum of Art and Technology, Midland, MI
2002
Artist Talk, University of California, Berkeley Extension Program, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2000
Artist Talk, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
Artist Talk, Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla, WA
1999
Artist Talk, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Selected Public Collections
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Juliette Art Museum, Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH
Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA
Rene di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Visiting Artist Lectures/Critiques/Juries
2016
Artist Talk, Florida State University Department of Art Visiting Artist Series, Tallahassee, FL
2014
Artist Talk, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2012
Artist Talk, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Panelist, Connecticut Office of the Arts FY Fellowship Awards
Panelist, Conveyer Arts, Hoboken, NJ
Artist Talk, The New School, New York, NY
Critiques, Award Jury, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2006
Juror, Alden B. Dow Museum of Art and Technology, Midland, MI
2002
Artist Talk, University of California, Berkeley Extension Program, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2000
Artist Talk, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
Artist Talk, Carnegie Art Center, Walla Walla, WA
1999
Artist Talk, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Selected Public Collections
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Juliette Art Museum, Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV
Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH
Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA
Rene di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
