Patte Loper Still Point of the Returning World
October 6 to November 19, 2024
Artist’s Reception, First Thursday, October 6, 6 to 8PM
featuring a special performance by Brooklyn-based synthpop band U.V.A. at 7PM

Link to images from the exhibition

Platform Gallery is pleased to present the work of Patte Loper in her  third solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will include paintings on panel, works on paper, and some of the sculptures Patte made to star as model for the two-dimensional work.

“I have cobbled together scraps of cardboard, old cloth, sticks, string, and putty to create relatively crude, small sculptures whose design slides between still life, figure, and architecture. I use these objects as subjects for paintings, a process that renders them as dramatic characters and places them into hybrid, two-dimensional environments--environments themselves cobbled together from remnants of iconic images. The sculptures serve as actors in a painterly world that is coming apart and back together again and the work hinges on the possibility of a whole pieced together from the remnants of other things, repurposed from the old, embracing new forms and infusing them with material playfulness and lyrical strangeness. These paintings consider a moment in time when the process of becoming form is caught, stilled at a particular moment, perhaps in transition between states or at a point of realization.
 
“I am flirting with a deeply intuitive sense of how the works could function and what they mean, and as such, their meaning often escapes language. The forms contain both urgency and totemic energies, with mysterious figures and apparitions rising out of the planned imagery to float along the periphery of understanding, perhaps pulling us deeper into a mysterious communion with the unknown.”

Patte has had solo shows in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Milan, and she has been in over 40 group exhibitions since 1998. Her work is included in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum as well as The Progressive Collection, Rene di Rosa Foundation, Swedish Medical Center, and the Microsoft Collection.

Image: Remember Me as a Time of Day, 20 x 24 inches, oil on panel, 2011