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American,
b. 1950
Jorge
2002
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.92 cm)
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2002.48
Los Angeles figurative artist John Sonsini hires models at sites where day laborers gather to solicit jobs as housepainters or handymen and paints them at his studio in a mixed Asian/ Hispanic neighborhood. Stoked by intuition, as well as by insights gained from conversations with his subjects, Sonsini celebrates his sitters’ individuality. Never reductive or invasive, he conveys body language and highlights details of clothing and appearance that hint at the emotional lives of immigrant workers who are largely invisible in the economic and social life of our cities. Presenting his models face-forward, eye-to-eye, he bridges a social gap enforced by immigration laws and economic strata, one rarely crossed by most Middle Americans.
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