WIP
Agnes, 3″x4.3″, Mixed Media
Robert, Teddy, John, Collage and Ink on Panel, 5″x5″
Flesh Made Real, Mixed Media, 4″x5″
Garden Painting, 6″x6″, Oil on Panel
Gwid, Oil and Ink on Panel, 12″x12″
New Chair / Gesso
15 panels on the way, a hoard of paintings to upload, and a 1954 Eames shell chair. Keep posted!
About Face Reviewed – The East Hampton Star
Mixed Media on Panel
The East Hampton Star
The New Profusion on Main Street
By Jennifer Landes
Graham Loper’s compositions of figures in antique dress are similarly unknowable. Rendered as if they existed in prior centuries, the faces, actually of real people, appear to be mostly cut out and applied, with the rest of the rendering painted around them. The faces are familiar and sometimes very modern looking, even when they are given the patina of age. The mysteries they imply lie in those facial features, and as a result feel more compelling.
Abstract Family I
Mixed Media on Panel, 2009
Victorian Survivors Dec. 12, 2009 – Jan. 9, 2010
Victorian Survivors at DRWR Gallery - Opening December 12, 2009
For Victorian Survivors, painter Graham Loper presents portraits, landscapes and art historical references to famous self-portrait with still life painter Gregory Gillespie. In perhaps one of the first seriously representational exhibitions this critic has ever seen mounted in Bushwick, coincidentally on the same weekend asExecution at Nude with a Goose, we are all turning to look at figure painting again.
http://bushwickbk.com/2009/12/11/bushwick-art-openings/
Victorian Survivors: Photos
For everyone who couldn’t make it to the show, the following are images of the space and paintings in the exhibition. Included are several new paintings and other works not previously seen on my website. Thanks again to DRWR!
Clara 1905-1965
Mixed Media, 2010
About Face January 30 – February 20, 2010
73 Main Street East Hampton, NY
Vague Figures With The Susquehanna (Before/After)
Dear Friends,
The folks from DRWR and I thank everyone who came to the opening. Photos will be uploaded soon!
-Graham
Left: Version II Interpretation / Right: Original Unfinished Gregory Gillespie
Now Showing: Victorian Survivors
DRWR Gallery
1254 Myrtle Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
A nice little mention courtesy of bushwickbk.com
http://bushwickbk.com/2009/12/11/bushwick-art-openings/
For Victorian Survivors, painter Graham Loper presents portraits, landscapes and art historical references to famous self-portrait with still life painter Gregory Gillespie. In perhaps one of the first seriously representational exhibitions this critic has ever seen mounted in Bushwick, coincidentally on the same weekend as Execution at Nude with a Goose, we are all turning to look at figure painting again.
Victorian Survivors, ETC.
Mixed Media on Panel and Reverse Glass Painting
Vague Figures with the Susquehanna uses an unfinished painting by Gregory Gillespie as foundation for reinterpretation and completion of a final image. I would like to add a special thank you to Peggy Gillespie and the estate of Gregory Gillespie, this project could not have been finished without their time and assistance.
