ANEL ALPYSBAYEVA

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UCLA Art School Expansion

Thick-Skinned

Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum

Caravanserai

A View From The Upside Down
ART

Untitled

A Common Burn

Stamps
DESIGN

Soap Dish

The Urban Dead

BASQA

Peri / Jeztırnaq    
Anel Alpysbayeva
        (she/her) is a Kazakh multimedia designer and artist based in Los Angeles, whose work focuses on experimental architecture, photography, and visual communication. Having lived in a post-Soviet Central Asian country and the UK, Anel’s multi-cultural background informs her approach to design which subverts the narrative structures within the medium. She is interested in non-linear, experimental forms of storytelling as well as non-hierarchical structures in her art. In her recent works, she contemporizes Kazakh folk motifs. She graduated with two BA degrees in Design | Media Arts and Architectural Studies at UCLA and will continute her higher education pursuing Masters in Architecture.
A Common Burn (Jun. 2023),
plaster, mdf wood, 3d-printed pla, leather. 




Education

University of California, Los Angeles
        Bachelor of Arts in Design | Media Arts and Architectural Studies
       Masters in Architecture


Experience

Work Experience Intern
         HOK London
        Feb.-Mar. 2018

President
         Russian Speakers Club at UCLA
        2023-2024

Artist and Designer
         UCLA Radio
        2021-2022

Artist and Designer
         Bruin Review
        2019

Social Media and Design Coordinator
         Russian Speakers Club at UCLA
        2019-2023

Exhibitions “Save As...”: DMA Undergraduate Select Exhibition
        Jan. 2024
“Sincerely,”: Senior Thesis Show.
        Jun. 2023
Design Media Arts Undergraduate Exhibition.
        Jan. 2019


UCLA Art School Expansion (Jun. 2024),
group  project  instructed by Benjamin Freyinger.
        Our design for UCLA Arts DTLA centers around the concept of a public park - a community refuge that is creative, playful, open, and inviting to all. Like public parks, this building serves as a sanctuary for diverse groups, including students and the greater Los Angeles community.
Project Visualization,
collage.



BASQA
        BASQA–translated to OTHER–is a magazine that aims to shed light on the people that are neglected by mainstream local Kazakhstani media. Through the use of film, poetry, photography, architecture, and the stories of Kazakhstani people from all walks of life, BASQA is a small magazine trying to tell stories and give space for the unheard and untold stories.
Caravanserais
        were roadside inns along major trade routes like the ancient Silk Road, that doubled as hubs for the exchange of goods, ideas, and culture. This project aims to survey and decompose circulatory system of the Aminabad Caravanserai, the juxtaposition of public and private space and the processional movement, and to establish modes of expression to showcase said survey.Concept Diagram:


Isonometric Drawing:



Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum (2023).
Experimenting with different media of representation, I journeyed from oil painting, collage-making to media art-based projects - book design and installations - I saw value in tacit knowledge and the constant feedback loop that is rendered through subversive, non-hierarchical modes of spatial and tangible representation that also seek to preserve the community they’re seeking to represent.
Untitled (2024).

Thick-Skinned (2024).
Times, Spaces, Dimensions
        By embodying a nuanced, yet critical, approach of the formal conversation of practice with the vernacular into architectural instruments, I relish the opportunity to discover new typologies for design. Furthermore, the sense of participation imbued through this practice signifies the idea of design also taking the form of an ever-changing organism, rather than singular, fixed truth.
A Common Burn (2023).
Untitled (2024).

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