MARK C. STEVENSON

Constructed urban environments appear at first to be straightforward urban paintings. The spaces seem navigable and legible, yet subtle structural manipulations prevent the viewer from fully entering spaces or resolving a discernable subject. What initially reads as a record of a real place gradually reveals itself to be a controlled visual construction. There is no privileged point of view, and subtle reference to many modernist techniques (flatness, repetition, self-similarity) slowly transform pictorial space into object on which subject is projected.

 

The work examines how easily viewers accept the authority of pictural space.