A&P PICKS

WHEN I REMEMBER I SEE RED

Edited by Frank LaPena, Mark Dean Johnson, and Kristina Perea Gilmore

University of California Press, 176 pages, $50

In June,, edited by Frank LaPena, Mark Dean Johnson, and Kristina Perea Gilmore to accompany a show at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum, doesn’t obscure the state’s sordid history. From LaPena’s lithograph “History of California Indians” to Linda Aguilar’s basket decorated with shells, bingo markers, and cut-up credit cards, the images challenge stereotypes in astonishing ways.