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ART REVIEW RUTH ASAWA Gallery Glances by Gale Hunt Culturally, Monterey Park sometimes really misses the boat. Recently their local Art Association gallery on Garvey Avenue presented the touring Youth-Art Sister Cities Award Exhibit and it was generally announced in the press. And mostly no one came. The following month the very same show left here and opened in the Capitol Gallery in Washington, D.C. to international acclaim. Ambassadors gathered from nearly every nation praising the paintings. The art event was reviewed in the major press throughout the world. So now there's another boat, perhaps of even greater import. It's free and just a short trip so don't miss the Ruth Asawa exhibit now showing at the Caltech Baxter Art Gallery, 1201 California Ave., Pasadena. It's a three room, 120-work event and all by one woman whose phenomenal talent is no less than a totally triumphant testimonial to the creative worth of every individual regardless of the social circumstance or the adversity of the arts. From the exhibit's brief chronology of the artist we are given some glimpses of the remarkably determined personality and a talent that could not be detained even in a World War II detention camp. Born in Norwalk in 1926 (her parents operated a vegetable truck farm) Ms. Asawa's various educational detours and delays on the path to creative prominence afford the average visitor even greater satisfaction in viewing her more recent and internationally recognized works including a baker's clay panels used in casting the bronze bas-relief fountain commissioned in 1970 for the Hyatt House at Union Square in the city of San Francisco. That she has firmly succeeded we humbly agree. Among the works which include massive metal sculpture, wire weavings, drawings, metallic lithography and watercolor there are dozens of examples of her daring and devotion to the experimental. Today Ruth Asawa's influence is not only evident in commissioned works in department stores, hotels, and shopping plazas thought the Western hemisphere. She has been further recognized as an appointed member of the Art Commission, serving in San Francisco since 1969. Someone once said there are several ways to climb the ladder of success but using the "under side" is not one of them. Well, Ruth Asawa did it that way and now she's a thousand feet tall. And no way to knock her off. Above all, see her artistry and marvel at the breathtaking beauty of the view. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 12 noon to 5 p.m. Sunday (closed Monday). Exhibit runs through No. 11. 10C—Monterey Park Progress Thursday, Nov. 1, 1973 Alhambra Progress S.S.G.—Rosmd. Progress E.L.A.—Month. Progress Thursday, Nov. 1, 1973 Monterey Park Progress—1C