Christian Culver

Born 1971 Norfolk VirginiaProfessional architect and successful artist. Concentrating on abstract 2D architectural art.Christian Culver is a practicing Architect. His passion for architecture and his dedication to creating inspiring architectural environments have fundamentally led him to question the way in which we see, view and process the visual world around us.Christian's visual artwork seeks to explore this notion of 'seeing', and questions our individual and cultural capacity to observe, decipher and absorb visual information.An extensive traveler, Christian's work draws directly on the city metropolis. Taking architectural photographs of specific places and buildings, Christian then collages them directly into his work, overlapping and contrasting them with opaque blocks of geometric colour and form."My work combines shape, color, form, and architectural, 'city graphs', the 'work' literally translates a 'physical reality' into a two dimensional 'constructed map'. A map as a vehicle for a phenomenological way of 'seeing'.Christian's use of varied and differential scale combined with the indicative placement of geometric structure creates a strong sense of direction and delineation throughout all his work."My attempt is to en...

University of Florida August 1990 - May 1995.Gainesville, Florida.Bachelor of Design in Architecture
State University of New York at Buffalo August 1996 - May 1998.Master of Architecture.

Commissions:
King & Spalding Law Firm, Atlanta,
GAHome Builders Association Wash. DC
Georgian Bank, Atlanta GA
St.Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix Arizona
Western Asset Management Corporate, Pasadena CA
Private Residences, in California, New York, Atlanta, Chicago
Worthing Southeast Builders Atlanta Georgia
CNN Omni Hotel, Atlanta Georgia
Marriott Hotel Downtown, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Galleries:International Nagoya Design Competition, Silver Prize, Nagoya, Japan, 2000
Gallery Sklo, Atlanta, GA
Mercer University Brown Art Gallery, 2006
Raymond Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1999
Carnegie Art Museum, Buffalo, NY 1998
Allentown Arts Festival, Buffalo, NY, 1998
PublishedReview : Atlanta Journal of ConstitutionAtlanta Business Chronicle 2001
Studio Notes 1999
Bluemilk Magazine 1999
Creative Eyes 1998
Architectural Record Magazine
Delta 2004 Vinum Brochure - Delta's onboard wine Brochure
American Lifestyle Magazine Issue 61 2014