I played off of minimalism: Donald Judd, Carl Andre. But their work is about the power of industry. Mine makes it domestic.

Faith is more complex than belief. It involves an individual’s relation to a community and engagement with ideas that are larger than the self.

I wanted to do something that is generous to the whole exhibition. Contemporary art is a bit off-putting to people because they don’t know the history. Even the term contemporary art history is oxymoronic.

The idea of the show came about because I had the intuition that faith is also a part of making art. … There is this notion in the art world that faith is not a...