Lot 31

Neltje Green’s practice explores the emotional resonance of architectural space, focusing on how environments hold memory, movement, and time. Working primarily in painting, the artist translates observed and remembered interiors into layered compositions that oscillate between realism and abstraction. Their work is part of an ongoing exploration of how places are archived and reconstructed through recollection. In stripping and rebuilding architectural forms, Green reveals the quiet tension between permanence and impermanence, presence and disappearance. These paintings of places also function as portraits of people, suggesting how environments can carry identity, intimacy, and trace. Each work becomes a fragment of a lived or imagined space, shaped by both observation and the instability of memory.