In PRESENCE, Justin Scivetti shifts focus to the often overlooked qualities of the built environment, revealing how architecture and natural elements coexist and interact. These works explore how nature subtly shapes and softens our constructed spaces, how shadows cast by trees, plants, and changing light fall across buildings and façades, creating an ever changing dialogue between the organic and the manmade.

Through a series of carefully observed paintings, Scivetti invites the viewer to engage with these spaces in a more intentional way. The work is not about capturing the physicality of architecture, but rather the atmosphere it creates, where light, shadow, and form subtly transform the environment, infusing it with presence and memory.

Scivetti’s process is deliberate and meditative. Compositions evolve gradually, layers are built up, reconsidered, and refined, revealing subtle nuances of shadow and form. What remains is a restrained yet resonant composition where the quiet complexity of the built environment is allowed to unfold slowly, offering a space for reflection and immersion.

With a professional background in both fine art and horticulture, Scivetti brings a unique attentiveness to natural rhythms and spatial relationships. His dual practice informs a visual language that is both sensitive and selective, where the constructed and the organic are intertwined in quiet, subtle harmony.

“Each painting in PRESENCE is built slowly over time, layers of observation, memory, and intuition. It’s less about depicting the environment as it is, and more about revealing the atmosphere that settles over it when we allow ourselves to be fully present.

I want the viewer to feel as though they’ve stepped into a moment that hovers between real and imagined, where light, air, and form combine to create a sensorial experience of place.”