In the summer of 2009 I received part of an unused gallery space on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro to work in for a month. Believing the time, space, and relative informality of the gallery afforded me the opportunity to experiment with making a painting for and in a particular space, I spent a month making various elements which came together on the wall as an installation. Employing collage, direct painting and drawing on the wall, some fabric, and some 3-D constructed elements, the painting-as-installation grappled with basic painting characteristics (ground, paint application, varying degrees of materiality) in an attempt to answer the question, "How does one make a painting in and for a particular space?"

The installation was comprised of two major paintings, What remains (a painted line: covering, hovering, stuck to and pinned) and Yellow painting (in four parts across a wall).

Overall, the exhibition was called Counter/ground.