Patte Loper

Patte Loper

  • Exhibitions and Projects
    • Salt Marsh Deep Time Study Center (Institute of Contemporary Art at MECAD) 2023
    • Laboratory for Other Worlds (Bellevue Arts Museum) 2022
    • Laboratory for Other Worlds (Mattress Factory) 2019
    • Quiet Country (Platform Gallery) 2021
    • Brooklyn Queens Expressway Reimagination Plan: Native Plant Viewing Station (Children's Museum of Manhattan) 2019
    • Visit to a Small Planet (Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences) 2017
    • Sparkly Darkly (Black and White Gallery and Project Space) 2017
    • Seeking Higher Ground (Suyama Space) 2016
    • Power Exchange Unit (Drawing Center) 2015
    • After Lebbeus, A Model for Drawing (Drawing Center) 2014
    • Collaborations
      • Bright Ecologies
      • Pupazetti
      • Empathy and Craft in the 21st Century (National Gallery of Jordan)
      • Temporary Structures and Home Communities
      • Structure in a Fertile Landscape
    • Your Rivers, Your Margins, Your Diminutive Villages (Ithaca College) 2014
    • Paint Collection Platform (Millay Colony) 2013
    • Untitled Worktable: A Plea for better Leaders in the Form of Automatic Sculpture (Platform Gallery) 2013
    • Archipelago (LMCC) 2012
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    • Painting 2019-2024
    • Painting 2014-2018
    • Painting 2009-2013
    • Painting 2003-2008
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Salt Marsh Deep Time Study Center
2023
aterials: Eastern Hemlock logged in early 20th C and salvaged from 108 Willoughby St in Brooklyn, NY, oat grass, potting soil, plastic, air dry clay, plaster, found wood, video equipment, lamps, paper mache, salt marsh sedimentary core sample, biological compound microscope, slide, various species of foraminifera 10’L x 9’W x 7’H
Installation View, Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine college of Art and Design

Salt Marsh Deep Time Study Center has been developed as part of Laboratory for Other Worlds, an ongoing research project and exhibition series on climate and the potential impacts of global warming on urban sea levels in the U.S. Northeast, based on climate science by researcher Andrew Kemp. This study center focuses on local salt marshes and their unique position at the edge of the sea and the land, and their history of rich ecologies buried within thousands of years of sedimentation. These marshes provide climate researchers with an understanding of ancient biomes, which are accessed via sedimentary core samples and used to reconstruct deep time habitats, and therefore ancient shorelines. This helps us understand the characteristic fingerprints that will affect future sea level rise. Salt Marsh Deep Time Study Center invites viewers to contemplate the complexity of salt marsh ecologies and their great value to human knowledge construction and more than human lifeways.