by Sam Whiting
The moment the presidential election was final, Oakland painter Monica Lundy sank into a “pit of despair.” On Nov. 10, she pulled herself out of it enough to form a response — get 100 California artists together on a collaboration.
She got on the phone to gallery owner Walter Maciel in Los Angeles, and it spread like a chain letter. The only instructions were, “do an 8-inch-by-8-inch portrait of an immigrant,” she says.