THE FOCUS

Rachel Bubis: You describe your work as resonating around the notion of faith, its tangibility, and the “intricacy and length of a soul’s pondering.” This is reflected through your process of layering and abstracting imagery of subjects such as church buildings. Can you talk more about this? Has this process informed your own spirituality and faith? Joe Letitia: The process started from teaching students a project where they produced an abstracted mandala type image based on their names. They would...

Wesley Roden: Whether landing gear amidst an excavation site or classical sculpture lingering in a basement, your work turns recognizable objects foreign by altering the environment. Do you see your role as an artist as being that of reframing cultural symbols? How does depicting some objects as if naturally existing and others as if collaged in place, comment on their recontextualization? Donald Keefe: I’m interested in anachronisms. We very much experience the world in a broken up, jumbled way. We...

"The Valence Series of works are haptically curative. They are the remnants of material investigations and they, like my current physical circumstances, are fragmentary alterations, transitory, and samplers for its transformation." Linda King Ferguson, Studio Visit, January 2024 Linda King Ferguson, Studio Visit, January 2024 Linda King Ferguson, Studio Visit, January 2024 "I learned to sew, quilt, knit and spin from a family of women makers and I studied Textile Surface Design by painting on paper. Consequently, my default materials are linen, cotton,...