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To Ron (1943-2024)

By: Tamara A. Arzumanova Corinaldi

(2024, Acrylic on canvas, Four 36X36" panels)

These paintings honor the life, dedication and spirit of Ron Goldschmidt. As the founder of the National Clinician Consultation Center, he devoted his career to pushing for progress in HIV care.

 

The proficient musician, even as a physician, could transform the slow-paced emptiness and the perception of disorder into thriving energized music and life. The four-panels are an in-the-round heart. Like Ron’s favorite song, Oscar Peterson's Hymn to Freedom, the paintings start out slow at the bottom, then notes like the thin roots (composed of names of people we have lost to HIV) are sparse on the page. As the music elevates and human connection is made, we transition to the canopy in which quick, paced, energetic notes from Mr. Peterson’s song become prominent.

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