Mike Nesbit

Mike Nesbit’s work moves between landscape, construction, and architecture. Using materials associated with building sites—concrete, pigment, and construction tools—his paintings and sculptures trace the physical processes that shape the built environment. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nesbit expanded the material language of his practice through extended work in the American Midwest, where the scale of the landscape and the presence of agriculture, industry, and infrastructure offered a site to test the limits of the work. Across painting and sculpture, materials accumulate like sediment: poured pigment settles, concrete hardens into mass, and surfaces register gravity, erosion, and time. In recent sculptures, ordinary construction tools appear as quiet monuments, reflecting on the labor and materials that precede architecture. Nesbit is also the founder of Maple St Construct, a nonprofit platform supporting artist-led projects and site-based cultural initiatives.