# Raffi Kalenderian: Before the Moon Falls

URL: https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/raffi-kalenderian/
January 22 — March 5, 2022 · Gallery I · Artists: Raffi Kalenderian

*“I must create a new regime*
 *Or live by another man’s*
 *Before the moon falls*
 *I must create a new scheme*
 *And get out of others’ hands*
 *Before the moon falls”*

Vielmetter Los Angeles presents “Before the Moon Falls”, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Raffi Kalenderian. Titled after The Fall’s 1979 post-punk song “Before the Moon Falls”, Kalenderian’s newest works hinge on the angst and bliss of creative output. Known for his visually dense and highly patterned portraits that fuse subjects with their environments and imbue them with a potent psychological charge, Kalenderian delights in the pleasure of looking closely and treating people and their environments with equal weight through sumptuous details, thickly laid paint, and vivid color.