Saul Ostrow looks at a group of works by painter Don Dudley made in Los Angeles before the artist moved east to New York.  The works were part of the recent exhibition Don Dudley at I-20 Gallery, the artist's first solo show in 25 years. Ostrow puts Dudley's works of the mid 60's in context with the concerns of Los Angeles artists at the time.  Although Dudley pursued other directions in his painting after relocating to New York, the Ostrow writes that from the LA works " one gets the sense of an important course within Minimalism as well as abstract painting that has gone unacknowledged and unexplored. "