THE FOCUS

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...

Rachel Bubis: You describe your work as existing at “the intersection of digital design and hands-on craftsmanship, where digital sketches and designs transform into vibrant, abstract compositions with a pronounced sense of depth and dimension.” You explain how you start in the digital world and then go to physical - do you ever do the opposite order? What do you think you gain and/or lose during this translating process? Katie Aronat: While most of my work begins digitally, there have...