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.
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For Victorian Survivors, painter Graham Loper presents portraits, landscapes and art historical references to famous self-portrait with still life painter Gregory Gillespie.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/
About Face January 30 – February 20, 2010
73 Main Street East Hampton, NY
![Dough and Dynamite at Heitmann [Atelier&Gallery]](http://site.grahamloper.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/6160_514579831540_80900247_30740066_5905142_n.jpg "Roaming Beast")
The Death of the Belsnickle
The Death of the Belsnickle at The Susquehanna Art Museum - Opening January 6, 2009
Boston Globe Writeup
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/articles/2008/07/23/novel_works_by_artists_in_training/
