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“Where in the world, where in this situation now can I be revolutionary, iconoclastic, and a voice of freedom? And, mind you, I’d never even lifted a pencil or drawn a circle.

I was eighteen. I thought, artist.

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You can be as revolutionary and loud and opinionated and self-righteous as you want to be in this world – in the art world. And they’ll just accept it. You know, what an interesting curiosity, an artist with an opinion.

And I thought, Okay.

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I’m going to be an artist. This is how I can survive, this is where I feel I can be free.” —Richard Duardo in an 2007 interview with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

My old friend and associate Richard Duardo died on November 11, 2014 at the age of 62.

I will let others compose the detailed obituaries… but I do have a few things to say about the passing of LA’s maestro of serigraphy.

I made Richard’s acquaintance in 1980, since we were both denizens of the Los Angeles p