STATEMENT - Paintings The suspended fluidity of the 'Splat' and 'Spilled' paintings, and the accumulated layers of the 'Poured' paintings capture and sustain ephemeral moments. As metaphoric embodiments of time, they evince a tenderness towards the material world, and the fleeting moments when things are made, changed, or destroyed. The plaster supports of the 'Spilled' paintings record contours of  painting panels that are in fact no longer there. On one hand, this perpetuates recurring themes of absence, empty space, and traces of things that can not be seen. But it is also a joke about my seeming inability to make a straightforward painting. The plaster and wax spill off the sides of the panel and onto the gallery wall. In this way, they are related to my installation work that treat walls like fluid, fluctuating zones. All of this has to do with mortality as well. The bubbles, plops, puddles and stains in my work reference the tragicomedy of inhabiting a human body. Interestingly, plaster's chalky, white hardness and wax's supple, organic softness are reminiscent of skeletons and the flesh they support. In this way, the work becomes an almost literal stand-in for the body itself, although the organic and biological references are complicated by bright, synthetic colors that read like plastic.