With all the construction going on around us, the sight of half-finished condos and blue gated lots have become eyesores to be expected and ignored, like visual noise in our periphery. But the paintings in Greg Lindquist’s solo show at Elizabeth Harris, his first in Chelsea, allows us to stop and contemplate what we no longer (want to) see.

The 28-year-old Greenpoint artist began memorializing Brooklyn’s quickly morphing landscape while getting his M.F.A. at Pratt. In his first show at McCaig-Welles last year, his graphic, gritty paintings (like “The Land of Disappearing Sky,” below) depicted the end of industry on the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront — and the beginning of luxury condos.

In his new show “Industry,” which opens tonight, he’s turned his attention to Red Hook, too, and its soon-to-open Ikea, as well as those temporary construction fences that now surround every empty lot. In “Ikea Site (Design for Consumer Choice, Parking over Preservation),” below, he pokes fun at Ikea’s M.O., and the fact that they paved over one of the Eastern seaboard’s few remaining dry docks to put up a parking lot. He also recasts those ugly fences in beautiful but somber plums, olives, and brown ochres.

“I don’t work from color photographs,” explains Lindquist. “I’ll print them out in black and white and make all the colors up as I go along, so that’s where the real transformation of these sites comes from.”

What’s really remarkable about this show is how much his palette has shifted away from the warm-cool colors in his first body of work, to the gray that dominates “Industry.” But these online images do not do his paintings justice. In person, you can see that these grays are actually metallic paint, and in “Ikea Site,” a brushed stainless steel plate, a conscious choice Lindquist made to reflect the building materials of development, its steel beams and girders, and also his mood.

“To me it expresses the general conflicted feeling I have about the loss of these historic sites in Brooklyn – as the colors have become bleaker and bleaker and more monochrome in my palette, these paintings make the event feel more ominous.”

This overwhelming building boom does not just resonate with Brooklynites, however. A Danish collector and dealer already bought this painting in the show, “Red Hook Revere Sugar Refinery (Flattening the Remains, The Age of Steam),” a beautiful portrait of its ruins that are now mostly demolished. Luckily Lindquist, together with Kingsland Printing, made 30 screen prints based on the painting, on metallic paper in varying edition sizes, all available in the gallery’s flat files.

“Industry” runs through March 8 at Elizabeth Harris Gallery. The opening tonight is from 6-8 pm. Lindquist’s site is greglindquist.com.

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Post Script: BB had one of those “what can go wrong will” days yesterday, and many subscribers didn’t get our great email about remaining V-day ressies, Brooklyn Cookie, and upcoming events like tonight’s “What’s So Funny About Brooklyn?” reading with Amy Sedaris and Gary Shteyngart. Click here to read it — and the major gaffe we corrected.