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Video By Jeremy Eichenbaum, Los Angeles Video Club, @eyecanbomb
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"When I make work I think of myself as throwing an Alley-oop, you know, to the viewer. They throw it down, they complete the dunk."
- Raffi
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RAFFI KALENDERIANAlberto (Staring at the Sea), 2025Oil on linen98 x 70 inches
248.9 x 177.8 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANAniisa (South of France), 2025Oil on linen98 x 78 inches
248.9 x 198.1 cm -
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"Kalenderian’s psychedelic color palette sublimates memory. The searing reds, magentas, and oranges are hallucinatory, and they reject practical memories for the emotional charge of a moment. The psychedelic storms imprint themselves on our souls with an intensity that matches real memory. Every feverish color pushes the image to its emotional extreme. It’s not realism, but a kind of sensory memory at full volume."
- Annie Armstrong in "The Jungle Gym"
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RAFFI KALENDERIANAnna, 2025Oil on canvas60 x 84 inches
152.4 x 213.4 cm -
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RAFFI KALENDERIANBathers, 2025Oil on linen70 x 98 inches
177.8 x 248.9 cm -
"The people Kalenderian paints are the ones who shape the tempo and texture of his timeline. A familiar cast cycles through—faces you might recognize from past shows, late-night conversations, or someone else’s Instagram story—alongside newer artists just starting to appear on the scene…These are the Bathers. This is what Kalenderian calls the “jungle gym of the LA painting community”—a web of artists climbing, swinging, slipping off, and reappearing again. His paintings work like a visual oral history that is less interested in hierarchy than in presence."
- Annie Armstrong in "The Jungle Gym"
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RAFFI KALENDERIANBathers, 2025Oil on linen78 x 98 inches
198.1 x 248.9 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANBathers, 2025Oil on linen98 x 78 inches
248.9 x 198.1 cm -
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RAFFI KALENDERIANBen Quinn and Goo, 2025Oil on linen98 x 70 inches
248.9 x 177.8 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANDemetrius and Rita, 2025Oil on canvas70 x 98 inches
177.8 x 248.9 cm -
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RAFFI KALENDERIANLisa-Marie, 2025Oil on canvas60 x 48 inches
152.4 x 121.9 cm -
"Raffi Kalenderian’s paintings don’t just depict people; they drop you into the middle of someone else’s memory, mid-thought. Not the clean kind of memory, but the messy, impressionistic kind: scent-triggered, light-warped, strangely specific. Great storytellers do this; so do great songwriters. They collapse the distance between lives and make you feel the ache of someone else’s nostalgia as if it’s your own. Kalenderian does it with a palette and a sofa full of people you may or may not know."
- Annie Armstrong in "The Jungle Gym"
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RAFFI KALENDERIANSoojung, 2025Oil on canvas60 x 72 inches
152.4 x 182.9 cm -
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Raffi Kalenderian in his studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2025.
Photo by Jeremy Eichenbaum, Los Angeles Video Club, @eyecanbomb -
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RAFFI KALENDERIANAlberto (Staring at the Sea), 2025Oil on linen98 x 70 inches
248.9 x 177.8 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANAniisa (South of France), 2025Oil on linen98 x 78 inches
248.9 x 198.1 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANAnna, 2025Oil on canvas60 x 84 inches
152.4 x 213.4 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANBathers, 2025Oil on linen70 x 98 inches
177.8 x 248.9 cm
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RAFFI KALENDERIANBathers, 2025Oil on linen78 x 98 inches
198.1 x 248.9 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANBathers, 2025Oil on linen98 x 78 inches
248.9 x 198.1 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANBen Quinn and Goo, 2025Oil on linen98 x 70 inches
248.9 x 177.8 cm -
RAFFI KALENDERIANDemetrius and Rita, 2025Oil on canvas70 x 98 inches
177.8 x 248.9 cm
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