Court ruling could allow California painter to see his own work in art galleries

No one disputes that Victor Grandy is an artist, a skill he picked up while serving 26 years in federal prison for selling cocaine. Since his release in 2019, the then-62-year-old painter and sculptor has had his work displayed in exhibits in California and Europe. But he’s not been able to see his own work in person because a federal judge ruled that he remains under law enforcement supervision. On Thursday, however, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the supervision appears to be legally unauthorized and told the Los Angeles judge to consider allowing Grandy to travel to the art shows on his own.