Meanwhile, down in San Pedro…
Making a show of it Ron Linden has championed artists for over two decades by Bondo Wyszpolski When the gallery director resigned from Los Angeles Harbor College, Jay McCafferty knew who to ask to take over her position. “And I said sure,” Ron Linden recalls. “I’d had limited experience when I was fresh out of grad school, taking my turn as the gallery director at Bradley University in the middle of Illinois. Ray Carofano. Photo by Bondo WyszpolskiArnée Carofano. Photo by Bondo Wyszpolski“So I took it on, and I enjoyed it.” That was in 2000. “Taking that job, and then founding the Warshaw Gallery on Sixth St. in San Pedro, collaborating with Ray and Arnée (Carofano) here at Gallery 478, and then the TransVagrant Projects, I just felt — given the opportunity — that not to do it would be tantamount to a criminal act. “Because,” Linden continues, “if I can present works by people that I believe in, then that would be fulfilling an obligation. Plus I enjoy curating, selecting, and collaborating with various artists. There’s been quite a variety, from the political, to the romantic, to the distant kind of formalist abstraction that takes a trained eye to see that there’s anything…
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