Gene Maslow; Painter, Sculptor

Gene Maslow, 70, painter, sculptor and environmentalist who worked in Los Angeles, Europe and Asia. A native of New York, Maslow was a lecturer and art counselor for many years at Otis/Parsons Art Institute of Los Angeles and was director of Artists for the Environment in Laguna Beach. He also guest-lectured on contemporary art at UC Berkeley, New York University and the Gutai Group in Kyoto, Japan. Maslow’s art was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Art Museum, the Pasadena Museum of Art and the Laguna Art Museum, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshorn in Washington, D.C., and others across the country and abroad. On Feb. 27 in Pondicherry, India, of cancer.