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Corridor II

1999
Not on view
The eerily lit interiors in Kalpakjian’s pictures do not exist in three-dimensional reality. Devoid of human presence, these virtual spaces were created on the computer with architectural design programs such as Form Z and Lightscape. The artist begins by drawing a simple model on the screen, using the imaging software to manipulate light, shadow, tone, and surface texture. Finally, he selects a view of the virtual space and renders the resulting image as a photographic print. This shadowy institutional corridor, with its vaguely unsettling feeling of airlessness, offers an apt metaphor for the sterile functionality of contemporary bureaucratic culture.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Corridor II
  • Artist: Craig Kalpakjian (American, born 1961)
  • Date: 1999
  • Medium: Silver dye bleach print
  • Dimensions: 76.2 x 101.6cm (30 x 40in.)
    Frame: 88.9 × 114.3 cm (35 × 45 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1999
  • Object Number: 1999.355.2
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Craig Kalpakjian
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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