THE FOCUS

Elise Cochran: When would you say you first started experimenting with text alongside images and what drove you to do this? David Underwood: I started adding text in some of my artworks in 2012, with an artwork titled, “Shift In Thinking.” Now some thirteen years later, my ongoing “image-text” series is the dominant body of my current work, with more than 250 artworks completed. I’ve always been interested in how the title of an artwork can possibly direct the viewer to either gre...

Rachel Bubis: You collaborate with your family in works such as Embustero: A Robotic Theater, an installation featuring fabricated robots made by your son and audio recordings of your siblings. What was the experience like working with them on this project? Richard Lou: Back in the late '80s, I staged a protest performance in front of the Chula Vista school district. A few local students had been setting up actual traps along the border, targeting undocumented migrants. The school...

Anna Mages: Your work often includes planes or fields of color that give your paintings structure and depth. This mark making is reminiscent of the edge of a palette knife or some hard edge. Can you elaborate on your process? Does the subject matter determine the kind of process you use for a given work? Georganna Greene: I find subject and process to be very closely dependent on each other. I very rarely go in with a plan, but instead...