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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Psychic Corporeal Map: Heaven
2022
Oil paint and graphite on hand-stitched canvas designed to folded
60” x 63.5”

The Heaven Tapestry Map Panel depicts an intertwined, multispecies organism in which the below and above ground realms are combined into undifferentiated consciousness. Taking into consideration recent scientific thinking about “panpsychism,” the idea that consciousness pervades the universe, this work sees the under- and above-ground realm as suffused with a shared sentience. In this tapestry, we see human remains, tombstones, mycelial networks, roots, stones, land, air, tentacles, hands, and eyes meld into a single body of living tissue surrounded by grassy fur.