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MOSE PUTNEY

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Architecture, artwork, and spatial studies by Mose Putney.

Architecture, artwork, and spatial studies by Mose Putney.

Architecture, artwork, and spatial studies by Mose Putney.

Mose Putney is an architect and artist working across buildings, interiors, painting, and model-based studies. This site collects selected professional projects, available artwork, and related studio work.

Mose Putney is an architect and artist working across buildings, interiors, painting, and model-based studies. This site collects selected professional projects, available artwork, and related studio work.

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ARCHITECTURE ENQUIRIES

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moseputney@gmail.com

PAINTING

Marks that behave like maps, rooms, weather, and memory.

Marks that behave like maps, rooms, weather, and memory.

The paintings are shown as complete works, not decorative fragments. Their lines and layers speak to many of the same concerns as the buildings: structure, movement, surfaces, and the changing meaning of places.

The paintings are shown as complete works, not decorative fragments. Their lines and layers speak to many of the same concerns as the buildings: structure, movement, surfaces, and the changing meaning of places.

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Night Grid painting by Mose Putney

Night Grid — dense paths, rooms, and bright interruptions held together by a dark street-like structure.

Portland Crossing painting by Mose Putney

Portland Crossing — blue enclosures gathered around a restless red, green, and yellow center.

Red Rooms painting by Mose Putney

Red Rooms — nested red forms and pale green lines divide the surface into rooms and glimpsed interiors.

Blue Passage painting by Mose Putney

Blue Passage — a broad blue route moving through sharp bands of orange, yellow, and black.

Center Holds painting by Mose Putney

Center Holds — layered diagonals turn around a small dark center, balancing motion and rest.

ABOUT

Mose Putney is a Louisville architect and painter with a long interest in how places gather meaning over time.

Mose Putney is a Louisville architect and painter with a long interest in how places gather meaning over time.

Mose Putney is a Louisville architect and painter with a long interest in how places gather meaning over time.

Mose Putney’s work moves between architecture, painting, drawing, and the close observation of places. Based in Louisville, his architectural practice has included new neighborhood housing, adaptive reuse, historic rehabilitation, and larger urban projects. His paintings and sketches explore many of the same concerns at another scale: structure, memory, movement, and the marks that accumulate over time.

Mose Putney’s work moves between architecture, painting, drawing, and the close observation of places. Based in Louisville, his architectural practice has included new neighborhood housing, adaptive reuse, historic rehabilitation, and larger urban projects. His paintings and sketches explore many of the same concerns at another scale: structure, memory, movement, and the marks that accumulate over time.

His approach begins with attention—to the building already standing, the street around it, the people who will use it, and the history that should not be erased.

His approach begins with attention—to the building already standing, the street around it, the people who will use it, and the history that should not be erased.

Mose Putney outdoors in snow with two dogs

Beyond the Studio

Kentucky, family, dogs, music, weather

Kentucky, family, dogs, music, weather

Mose Putney beside an old red truck at a Kentucky barn
Friends and dogs gathered in the studio
Kentucky barn with rainbow and bell

PLACE / OUTSIDE THE STUDIO

Weather, old buildings, working landscapes.

Weather, old buildings, working landscapes.

Weather, old buildings, working landscapes.

Outside the studio, the same attention continues—in old buildings, changing weather, working landscapes, and the people and animals that make a place familiar.

Outside the studio, the same attention continues—in old buildings, changing weather, working landscapes, and the people and animals that make a place familiar.