What presages to be a smaller version of Los Angeles’ famed “Gallery Row,” on La Cienega Blvd., is the almost sim­ultaneous opening of four galleries in downtown La Jolla.

Opened in February, The Jefferson Gallery is temporarily located at 7930 Ivanhoe, while they await the comple­tion of their new gallery and art center, designed by local architect, Russell Forester. According to the director, J. Thomas Jefferson, the gallery will be de­voted exclusively to showing contempo­rary works of art. Dorothy Stratton’s one­-man show of recent oil abstractions are an involvement with nature which she