Bio:


Jeff Klapperich started his pursuit of fine art and photography at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in the fall of 2000. With a background in film and theater he took his approach to art from a very theatrical standpoint.


His early experiments in photography dealt much, with the manipulation of film itself. Using varied materials to break the viewer’s idea of what is actually happening he made works that dealt with reflection, transparency, texture and focal manipulation.


In his third year at Pratt he began experimenting with double exposure which enabled him to further break the idea of a photograph as a document. With this introduction to photoshop, Jeff’s ideas began to gain more depth, seeing the capabilities the medium possessed. His imagination began to unfold.


Sticking to the manipulation of film, Jeff began combining double exposure techniques with painting and light techniques to form his thesis body of work ‘Theater of Uncircumstance’. Using these techniques Jeff experimented with combining background elements with figurative elements to create seamless realities that never were.


After School Jeff was afforded the opportunity to travel around the country interviewing Leaders and Visionaries with an organization called Roadtrip Nation.


Finding himself in Boulder, CO in the fall of 2004 Jeff began extending himself to the community in an effort to seek out the talents of artists in the area. Dissatisfied with the general attitude surrounding artists in the area, Jeff began organizing The Scattered Arts Collective (SAC), a grassroots not-for-profit organization geared toward making art available and putting it in a light that gets people interested and excited.


After organizing and promoting half a dozen shows with SAC, he finished his next body of work ‘Denver, 3AM’ which featured work created in the most unnoticed places throughout the city. Employing the same techniques as found in ‘Uncircumstance’ Jeff used industrial urban scenery juxtaposed with figure and landscape elements.


In the pursuit of new techniques, Jeff began experimenting with the use of paper stencils that cover portions of the negative. Giving him more control over what was being exposed on the negative, Jeff began combining this new technique with his older ones. The first of the prints was featured at The Scattered Arts’ one year anniversary party, an underground junk/blues spectacle at Freedom Auto, a junk yard in Commerce City, Colorado in the summer of 2006.


Jeff currently resides in Denver where he continues his pursuit of photography, and community, with the Scattered Arts Collective.