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 jvaliulis@autrynationalcenter.org 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