A few from the series: Untitled Spray Portrait With... 

    At the time, I was reading and thinking a lot about fact and actually in art. By giving the paintings titles that described the ingredients I was asking the viewer to look more closely at the formal elements of the paintings, what is actually there and why those choices were made. I often tell my students that a work of art can instantly become more interesting if we ask why rather than what.

    In addition, I began the practice of adding a rip and a BB hole.

   They were initially meant to be left on the street in Chelsea, NYC, but a studio visit with a curator from The Wexner Center for the Arts, talked me out of it.

    There are about fifteen of these. Here are five followed by two details