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 and subtitle reference to many modernist techniques (flatness, repetition, self-similarity). The work examines how easily viewers accept the authority of pictural space.