by Carmela Ramirez| Staff Writer| [email protected]
Oct. 2, 2019
Gregory Kondos remembers catching a kid stealing a record at Tower Records on Broadway. The kid bolted and Kondos followed in pursuit. He caught the kid at a nearby cemetery and dragged him back to Russ Solomon, the founder and owner of the Tower chain. Kondos said he had caught the kid stealing records. Solomon responded, “Let him go.”
That’s how Kondos, retired art teacher at City College, remembers Solomon. Kondos, along with others, gathered Sept. 22 to celebrate what would have been Russ Solomon’s 94th birthday and view a portion of his art collection. The exhibition, “Remembering Russ Solomon,” ran from Aug. 21–Sept. 22.
The exhibit took place at the Kondos Gallery, named for Gregory Kondos, one of the world’s most prominent California landscape artists, after he retired in 1982.
“The school itself should be applauded because it turned out some great painters and teachers,” says Kondos.
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“Russ was an avid art collector,” says Patti. “He supported the arts in California, he loved music, he was a photographer himself.”
In 2015 Solomon used City College’s photo studio in the new Student Services building to shoot portraits of his friends, all of them famous Sacramento locals, called “Legends of Sacramento.” He also took photos of regular Sacramentans for a series called “Community.” This inspired Drosins to start the Solomon scholarship fund.
“I started one for him for his 90thbirthday for the photography department because he was having his shows,” says Drosins. “It’s such a hard profession to go into, and then this year I thought you know, we should expand it to the arts because Russ loved art.”
There are now two Russ Solomon scholarship funds at City College—one in photography and one for students who major in art, art history or studio arts. Dan McCarty, director of philanthropy, said he believed that the scholarships will be $1,000 each.
“I wanna keep his name going. I want people to understand what he supported,” says Drosins.
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