Catching the big wave: Surf’s up for VEFA Gallery curator Delia Cabral
by Bondo Wyszpolski It’s largely in the presentation, and early this past November, when VEFA Gallery opened to the public, the presentation was well-nigh perfect. The acronym stands for Visual Effects Fine Art, and the spacious standalone on Hawthorne Blvd, across from Del Amo Mall in Torrance, is suddenly the most dazzling art venue in the South Bay. Located in a former bank building and renovated to feature art in several partitioned rooms, VEFA was several years in the design and development stage, financed and owned by the Anderson family of Palos Verdes. The inaugural show, “The Art of Surf,” was proposed and organized by Delia Cabral, hired to be the gallery’s lead curator. Cabral has extensive experience as an arts writer and art dealer, and for several years ran her own gallery up the coast in Venice. We secluded ourselves in a quiet space and Cabral began to explain how she first encountered the Andersons, and what led to this unexpected stint in Torrance — unexpected because she now lives overseas. “About a year ago my attorney Michael said there’s this wonderful family that’s opening an art gallery in Los Angeles, and would I be interested? And I said, No. I’m living…
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