 Plaster Paintings | I rely on chance to animate the surface and create a structure on which to apply paint. Quasi-organic masses are produced by dropping plaster onto a prepared panel. The resulting bas-relief surfaces are a concrete demonstration of the dynamics of the materiality and viscosity of plaster, acting within the boundaries of gravity and space. When I make the work, I attempt to strike a balance between controlling the flow of plaster and accepting its variable forms. If the color achieves what I intend, it can transform the white plaster surface into a form evoking some living mass or magnified geologic space.
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 Scratch Drawings | These drawings are scratched into the surface of collaged glossy magazine paper. The paper is collected from issues of Artforum and other art magazines, where galleries frequently advertise simply with words in a big field of solid color, often black. Cutting up these venerated arbiters of culture, and scratching whatever I please into their pages, is a satisfyingly destructive act. |
 Work on Paper | Plaster shapes are at the heart of many of my drawings. I like to think of these drawings as petri dishes of wierd shapes, which I try to animate, the way I think organisms from another planet might appear animated, looked at through a microscope. In other drawings, terrestrial seeds and plants are animated, acting with volition to move and interact on the surface, or floating weightless and dormant in space. In the plaster paintings and drawings, shapes and tendrils suggest synapses, cellular structures, plants, and the human body. Through these forms, I feel I am locating points of interconnection, evidence of the elements which underlie all matter. |
 Paintings | These paintings come from looking at objects in the world and science books, and from reading fiction and poetry. |
 Internal Drift Installation | This site-specific installation was created for a cathedral-style wall in a living room. The title, Internal Drift, comes from the idea that the amoeba shapes reference the cellular structures of the body, cells which replace themselves daily. Cell-like contours contain individual paintings, which are themselves containers of ever smaller shapes. The paintings are suspended, appearing to float in space, in an attempt to convey a sense of movement—which might also convey the notion of unseen processes of renewal and change. |
 Yard | These oil paintings have a slightly blurry appearance; this is not due to poor image reproduction. I painted them this way to make them seem "out-of-focus " like their source material. These 13 paintings make up a series called Yard. This work is based on a single photograph, an old snapshot that holds much more meaning for me than a casual observer could ever see in it. |
