[artist statement]
As we become a more homogeneous society, local dialects, traditions, and cultural individuality disappear. The struggle to preserve history and identity has come to the forefront of my art. These paintings address over–development, mortality, destruction, paradise, and decay. By employing the principle of genius of place, the notion that painting should always be adapted to the distinctive qualities of a location, I seek to construct paintings that embody the uniqueness of my subjects. I counter claims of progress with expressions of nature, imagination, and reflection.
© 2009 Graham Loper
[resume]
EDUCATION
The University of New Hampshire, MFA Studio Art, Durham, NH, 2007-2009
Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA Painting, Baltimore, MD, 2002-2006
The Glasgow School of Art, BFA Painting, Glasgow Scotland, Fall 2004
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Towards Zero” (upcoming, catalogue) DRWR Gallery
Brooklyn, NY December 2009
“Dough and Dynamite”(upcoming) Heitmann [atelier & gallery]
Lancaster, PA August 2009
“MFA Degree Exhibition” UNH Museum of Art,
Durham, NH May 9, 2009 – May 23, 2009
“The Death of The Belsnickle” Susquehanna Art Museum
Harrisburg, PA January 19, 2009 – February 19, 2009
“Views of Scotland and Lancaster, PA” Meyerhoff Gallery
Baltimore, MD Nov. 14, 2005 – December 9, 2005
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Boston Young Contemporaries,” 808 Gallery: Boston University, Boston, MA.
June 26, 2009 – July 31, 2009
“35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th Annual Juried Art Exhibitions,” Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery: Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, May 2006-2009
“Close Associations,” University of New Hampshire Museum, Durham, NH
April 24, 2009 – May 22, 2009
“The Small Works Show,” Heitmann [atelier & gallery], Lancaster, PA
February 6 – February 28, 2009
“A Friend Indeed Invitational,” Katzan Arts Center’s Rotunda Gallery: American University, Washington DC. Nov. 3 – Nov. 28, 2008
“Boston Young Contemporaries,” 808 Gallery: Boston University, Boston, MA.
July 18-Aug. 22, 2008
“New Paintings: 2007,” Gallery 234, Staunton, VA, May-June 2007
“Transient Modern Landscape,” The Walter’s Art Museum, Baltimore, MD,
Oct. 30, 2007
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Graduate painters present new work at UNH Museum of Art,” (Illus.) Foster’s Daily Democrat May 4, 2009
“Susquehanna Art Museum: Doshi Gallery,” (Illus.) Harrisburg Magaine, Pg. 76, February 2009
“Novel works by artists-in-training,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, July 23, 2008
“Juxtapositions Magazine,” November/December Issue, 2005
SELECTED AWARDS/ACHEIVEMENTS
Fulbright Full Grant Alternate Spring 2009
Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery Juried Exhibition: Fourth Prize Spring 2009
Summer Graduate Research Grant Summer 2008
LECTURES
University of New Hampshire Art Museum, Durham, New Hampshire May 2009
Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania January 2009
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 2008