Criselda Vasquez, an artist known for a celebrated painting that explores her parents’ experiences as immigrants, said her father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month.
Vasquez’s 2017 work, “The New American Gothic,” depicts her parents, who are from Mexico, standing in front of a red pickup truck while holding cleaning supplies and a gardening hoe. Her piece is a reimagining of the iconic “American Gothic” painting by Grant Wood.
