This selection of earlier work traces an ongoing interest in the built environment and the ways people experience and move through urban landscapes. The paintings focus on bridges, roads, tunnels, buildings, parking lots, pathways, and other everyday structures that shape the character of a place.
Working primarily from direct observation and photographic sources, I am drawn to spaces that are often overlooked or encountered in passing. Familiar elements of the city become subjects for sustained observation, allowing details of structure, material, light, and spatial relationships to emerge through painting.
Across this body of work, the urban landscape is understood as something continually shaped by movement, use, development, and change. These paintings form the foundation for my more recent investigations of infrastructure and urban transformation, in which painting has become an increasingly deliberate way of observing and understanding the changing city.