The grandmothers, artist Carmen R. Sonnes says, are pissed. In her Contreras Gallery show Radiance, about the deaths of migrants in the Arizona desert, Sonnes has a triptych painting of five angry grandmothers. Equipped with sunglasses to ward off the fierce desert sun, and wrapped in old-time Mexican rebozos (shawls), the white-haired women in “The […]
