Craig Kalpakjian Craig Kalpakjian art is about the somewhat paradoxical nothingness. His subject matter is consists f the banal and forgettable word of generic offices interiors plastic garbage cans florescent lighting fixtures and corners where white paint and baseboards meet. Kalpakjian uses digital rendering and modeling tech to document spaces that look and feel familiar to the viewer. This attempt to inject life into already sparse spaces are associated with modern archecture.

Craig Kilpakjian

The artist and his work Craig kalpakjian was born in Huntington new York HE NOW RESIDES IN Brooklyn New York where he has a studio.

Prints ,mounted on Plexiglas and executed with a inkjet printer. Shards Prints ,mounted on Plexiglas and executed with a inkjet printer.

Corridor In corridor we are traveling down a hallway that is endless with a slight turning angle. Corridor is a computer generated digitally made film clip instead of nails and paint, the surface is the result of programming. It proves the distance between the environment and aesthetic distance from human form .

corridor

Monitor 1 Monitor one is from the series closet and uses what appears to be a monitor in the corner or a room in the clip you can see the door opening and closing and from the monitors position. In real time this a picture with layers and pictures with out layers allowing the viewer to think that he is realizing the corner of a room. Alto there is no such angle that a camera could view.

Monitor 1

The closet The closet now a web site, with the use of the tread mill experience is about a group of artists walking on a tread mill and reciting pose or reading from a novel . This experience is to remind us that reading and walking can not be done at the same time Craig Kalpakjian participated in this event in New York along with Andy Warhol.

H.A.V.I.C. This the use of digital art as it is seen from the outside to the inside done as a bleached print on aluminum plate

H.a.v.i.c. 1999

Moon museum Craig Kalpakjian was asked to supply drawing and sketches for a project to be put on the moon. Along with NASA The project was never realized because of red tape and the launch date. Unknowing to nasa the artist arranged to put in the sleeve of the astronaut a picture book of worldly affects that was to be taken to the moon. After lift off they found the book. And its on the launch to the moon.

The museum book

Moonworks proposal for drawing on the moon Current project Robot rover of the kind currently used to gather data on mars and the moon. Would draw on the surface of the moon. Creating the first ever public art works in space . The rover could make geometric patterns in the dirt of the moon.

Moon museum

Craig Kalpakjian Awards Public exhibitions 29 Solo Shows 5 Group shows 24 Public collections 5