Nelaart Second Saturday Gallery Night

NELAart SECOND SATURDAY GALLERY NIGHT AT THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM Of Mountains and Myths: 35 Years of Telluric Landscapes by

Raoul De la Sota

Opening Reception Saturday, September 12 . 7:00—10:00 p.m. Show and Sale runs September 12—October 4, 2009 Born and raised in Los Angeles by Mexican parents in a bilingual household, Raoul De la Sota studied art at Los Angeles City College and then at UCLA where he earned his Master of Arts degree. Soon after graduation, he received the first Fulbright Fellowship ever awarded to a Chicano artist for a year’s study in Peru. This exhibit, Of Mountains and Myths, presented by the Southwest Museum, is a compilation of De la Sota’s interest in the telluric landscape and what that subject has meant to tribes, cultures, and civilizations in the Americas. His early work focuses first on the pictorial qualities of the California Sierra Nevada, then and eventually on the spiritual qualities encountered when ascending those very mountains. His later travels and investigations into the creation stories and cosmological myths of major cultural groups in the Americas led to the paintings that center on the sacred mountains of the Inuit, Tlingit, Navajo, Mejica, and Inca. De la Sota has exhibited in 15 foreign countries, as well as the U.S. in museum such as The Museum or Organization of the American States, the Armand Hammer, Laguna Museum of Art, Museum of Latin American Art, and the Museum of Man in San Diego. He has been featured in solo exhibitions in Mexico at galleries in Oaxaca, Morelia and Valle de Bravo. Locally, his work has been shown in a number of galleries including the Howeeduzzit Gallery in Alhambra and Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park. Image courtesy of Raoul De la Sota.

Meet the artist and join us for art, conversation, Mexican chocolate, and pan dulce on opening night, September 12, 2009. The Southwest Museum Store will also be open. Please contact Jo Valiulis at 323.667.2000, ext. 232, or [email protected] for more information. The Southwest Museum is open Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free.

Southwest Museum of the American Indian 234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065 • 323.221.2164 • AutryNationalCenter.org