Raffi Kalenderian’s practice is rooted in portraiture, with subjects often saturated in vivid color and set against densely patterned backgrounds. He uses paint to build charged atmospheres while treating compositional relationships—figure and ground, positive and negative space—as something that can be tested and reworked on the canvas.
More recently, Kalenderian has turned to landscape painting, bringing the same appetite for unexpected color combinations and complex patterning into lush depictions of foliage, water, and sunsets. In this spotlight, his shift and overlap between portraiture and landscape come into view through works that share viewpoints, echoes of color, and painterly attention to rhythm, shadow, and surface texture.
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