VITRUMGLOSS
new work by
Rafael Perea de la Cabada

The Project-Fine Art Zone

May 3th - June 3th, 2012

Opening Reception
First Thursday, May 3th, 5pm to 8pm

740 Suite #1 State Street

corner of De La Guerra Street & De La Guerra Plaza

Gallery hours

Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 11am to 6pm

Sundays: 12 – 6
online: theproject-fineartzone.com & rafaelperea.com

THE PROJECT- FINE ART ZONE, A collaborative non-profit art gallery owned and operated by nine local female artist. The gallery will benefit GIRLS INC. of greater Santa Barbara by donating 20% of all sales to their organization, Girls Helping Girls.

 
  Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art

Two Mexican-themed exhibitions and a free family festival come to the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art this spring. “Rafael Perea de la Cabada: Alien Heartland” and “Mexican Prints: Selections from the Gil Garcia and Marti Correa de Garcia Collection” go on display Feb. 23 through March 31. The exhibitions open with a free public reception Thursday, Feb. 23, from 4-6 p.m.

“Días de México: A Family Festival” continues this celebration of Mexico’s vibrant culture with a day of fun activities, crafts, music, dance, storytelling, food and more on Saturday, March 24, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in and around the museum. The event and most of the activities are free and open to families of all ages.

“Alien Heartland” offers a retrospective of Mexican-American artist Rafael Perea de la Cabada. Perea, who was born in Mexico City, spent the first half of his life in his native country before coming to California to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting at UC Santa Barbara. This exhibition includes drawings, prints, paintings and sculptures made in both countries, exploring themes of contemporary Mexican-American culture. Perea’s abstracted, expressive artwork is held in museum and private collections in California, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and several countries in Europe.

“Mexican Prints” showcases the holdings of local collectors Gil and Marti Correa de Garcia. The collection, which focuses on prints from the mid-20th century, emphasizes the vital graphic aesthetic of Mexico with work by artists including Francisco Toledo, Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Merida and others. Mr. Garcia is the lead architect of Garcia Architects and Advisors. He was a Santa Barbara city councilman for 10 years and has served on the boards of 90 non-profit organizations. He is on the board of Southern California Sister Cities International, past president of the United States/Mexico Sister Cities Association, and current president of the Santa Barbara/Puerto Vallarta Sister City Committee.

Mrs. Marti Correa de Garcia is the treasurer of the Santa Barbara/Puerto Vallarta Sister City Committee.

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, please call (805) 565­6162 or e-mail museum@westmont.edu.

Website: http://westmontmuseum.org/MexicanExhibition.html

In conjunction with the exhibition, a full-color, 66 page catalogue has been published, which features images of the artist’s works; an introduction and acknowledgements by Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art Director Judy Larson, Ph.D.; an essay by Huffington Post critic Peter Frank, entitled Rafael Perea de la Cabada: Relations With The Audience; and design by Myopia.

ORIGINAL/MULTIPLE Following the red Thread
Artists of the Limited Edition project
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 from 4-6pm
ELVERHOJ Museum
1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang CA
Original/Multiple: Following the Red Thread, is an exhibition of thirteen prints by contemporary artists invited to participate in the Limited Edition Project.  From October, 2010 to November 2011, selected artists made limited editions (25 identical pieces) in all manner of printmaking media: intaglio, relief, planographic, and digital. In order to explore the creative process and better understand how artists come to their images and the decisions that shape the images, each of these prints will be surrounded by work by these artists which connects to the limited edition print.

Printing twenty five etchings or woodcuts, silkscreen or  mixed media works bespeaks a commitment to a particular image. Such an image or elements within that image is/are embedded in some conscious or unconscious way in the larger oeuvre of the artist. It is fascinating to find connections and repetitions in a single artist’s work: across disparities of time, medium, scale, color, dimension — some elements persist — as if the artist is driven to keep looking for meaning in certain ways of expressing, certain themes, even certain (sometimes unconsciously chosen) shapes or surfaces, compositions or other visualized ideas.

The show will include at least one print — the limited edition print — from each artist, and four to eight other images which bear upon, illuminate, and connect with it.  In many cases, these other images are NOT prints, but paintings, sculptures, drawings, watercolors, collages, assemblages, books, mixed-media objects.

All of the LE prints and many of the supplemental works are for sale; during the Valentine Extravaganza, smaller works will be available for sale in the gift shop.

Participating artists: Stephanie Dotson, Dane Goodman, Carolyn Hubbs, Michael Jameson, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Marie Schoeff, Libby Smith, Nicole Strasburg, Dug Uyesaka, Nina de Creeft Ward, Nina Warner, Teresa Zepeda, Pamela Zwehl-Burke.

Join us March 3rd at 4pm
Panel Discussion: Discovering Themes and Variations
OR
Join us March 24th 9am -12pm
Workshop:  Original Ideas and Multiple Connections

Directions and more information: ELVERHOJ LINK
More information on participating artists: LIMITED EDITION PROJECT

5×5 Invitational

November 30 – December 16, 2011

Reception Wednesday, November 30, 4-6 p.m.

Online auction opens at 4 p.m. November 30 and closes at 5 p.m. December 16, Pacific Standard Time

Nearly 400 artists have created unique works for this exhibition, each measuring 5” square. Participating artists come from as far away as New York and as close as Santa Barbara. We think you will be excited to see the variety and creativity these artists present.

This exhibition is a fundraiser for the Westmont Museum of Art and sales will help to support upcoming exhibitions in the gallery. All work will be displayed in our gallery and will be posted online beginning November 30th.

Sales of work will be conducted online through this website – stay tuned for more information.

The opening reception is from 4-6pm on November 30th at the Westmont Museum of Art. We hope to see you there!

Download a PDF flyer for the exhibition here.

Participating Artists as of November 7, 2011

Sylvia Abualy, J.W. Adkins , Karen Aggelar, Lynn Aldrich, Terry Allen , Janet Allinger, Wesley Anderegg, Cam Anderson, Scott Anderson , Mari Andrews, Allison Arendsee, Charles Arnoldi , Tony Askew, Jamee Aubrey, Bonnie Baas, Don Bachardy, Bela Bacsi, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Celeste Baross, Peter Bartczak, Rayne Beaudoin, Bonnie Beedles, Mary Lee Bendolph, Jim Bess, Sherry Bevan, Jack Bianchi , Clovis Blackwell, Karl Blasius , Patricia Borgman, Jennifer Boswell, Eva Bovenzi, Sandra Bowden, T.C. Boyle, Hilary Brace, Donald Bradford, Robert Brady, Mike Brady, Will Brady, Christine Brennan, Joy Brenneman , Carol Brighton , Sally Brogden , Ada Pullini Brown , Christopher Brown , Phoebe Brunner , John Budicin, Carol Burnett, Kent Anderson Butler, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Rose Cabat, Cheryl Calleri , Pat Calonne, Carol Carbine, John Carlander, David Carlson, Squeak Carnwath, Dylan Carr, Theresa Carter, Erika Carter, William Catling, Steven Childs, Suzan Dougall Christenson , Christo , Dorothy Churchill-Johnson , Christopher Clother, Nance Cole, Kate Connell, Stephanie Cooney, Carlos Cordova, Marguerite Costigan, Bonnie Loyd Crane , James Daichendt , Lloyd Dallett, Bill Dalziel, Duane Dammeyer, Llyod Dangle, Rick Delanty, Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso , Carole Demachkie , James Denmark , Bill Dewey, Sue Dirksen, TJ Dixon, Jerimiah Dube, Charlie Duke , Rae Dunn, Michael Dvortcsak, Marion Eisenmann, Linda Ekstrom , James Elston, Mark English , Cass Ensberg, Melinda Esparza, Ian Everard, Sonya Fairbanks , Avery Falkner , Jim Felland, Alan Firestone , Keith Fishman, Peggy Fletcher , Julia Ford, Wayne Forte , Amy Fox, Tom Francis , Scott Fraser, Nancy Freeman, Bryan Freeny, Mary Freericks, Ron Freese, Gajin Fujita, Ginny Furmanski, Monica Furmanski, Valori Fussell, Anthony Galvan III, Helen K. Garber, Catherine Gee, Dan Gheno, Sheila Ghidini , Judy Gibbs, Nancy Gifford, Diane Giles, Ann & John Gillen , Milton Glaser , John Glick , Loree Gold, Carla Golembe, Barbara Goll, Sandra Goodenough, Dane Goodman, Jerry Goodman , Penelope Gottlieb, George Goyer, Jim Granito, Mark Steven Greenfield, Anna Griffin, Anna Griffin, Margaret Griffith , Debra Joy Groesser , Robert K. Gronendyke, Joan Gunther, Marry Addison Hackett, James Haggerty, Linda Haggerty, Kimberly Hahn, Jason Hall, Bay Hallowell, Thekla Hammond , Holli Harmon, Jeremy Harper, Carla Harris, Dotty Hawthorne, Mary Heebner, Willy Heeks, Bill Hendricks, Matthew Hilbish, Victoria Furst Hines, Beth Hird, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Diana Hobson, Eric Hochberg, David Holt , Carolyn Hubbs , Joseph Hughes, Ray Hunter, Mary Ijichi, Mary Ince, Barbara Irvine, William Ishmael, Michael Jameson , Nathan Jarvis, Sterling Jenkins, Nancy Jensen , Geoffrey Dean Jensen , Ken Jewesson , Martha Ensign Johnson, Donald Jolley, Evelyn Justesen , Pam Kaganoff, Robin Kandel, Suzette Keegan, Gary Kelley, Colleen Kelly, Jim Kelly , Tom Kerr, Yessy Kim , Monica Kinney, Marjorie Kinney , Kitty Klaidman, Karla Klarin, Michael Kline, Sheryl Knight , James Kochalka , Philip Koplin, Marilee Krause, Therése Lahaie, Paul Lariviere, Rod Lathim , Marrianne Lettieri, Helen Ann Licht , David Ligare , Terry Lockman, Christine Loizeaux, Louise Lopina, Martha Inman Lorch , Sara Lytle , Kim MacConnel, Richard Macias , Warren MacKenzie, Nancy MacKenzie, Laurie MacMillan, Tina Malonis , Robert Mangold, Cree Mann, Eric March, Hugh Margerum, Saritha Margon, Luigia Martelloni, Jerry P. Martin, Taka Maruno , Bob Mask, Sharon Matthews, Eleanor Matthews , Whitney Mattila , Godfrey Mawema , Liz Maxwell, Steve McAfee, Debra McKillop, Carla Meberg, Chris Messner, Ron Meyers, Tom Michali , Sherrill Miller, Emily Mollhagen, Inés Monguió, Marcia Morehart, Steve Morrison , Ed Moses, John Moses, Bonnie Muench, Kyle Muench , Anthony Mullen, Janice Muller , Aline Mure, Jan Murphy, Brad Nack, Margaret Nadeau, Dawn Nakashima , John Nava, Mike Neal, James Nelson , Kadir Nelson , Max Neufeldt, Judy Neunuebel, Greg Newbold , Jerilynne Nibbe, Loren Nibbe, Judy Nienow, Warner Nienow, Judy Nilsen , Rachel Christine Nowicki, Ellen L. Orlando , Edward Carlo Pacio, Liga Pang, Barbara Parmet, Nicole Pate , C.F. Payne, Gina Pearlin, Aage Pedersen, Joan Perlman, Don Petersen , Joel Phillips , Gail Pine , Shirley Pittman, Julie Pointer , Patricia Post, Theodore Prescott, Astrid Preston, Keith Puccinelli , Lori Putnam, Peg Quinn, George Radon, Leta Ramos, Mel Ramos , Barri Ramoy, Douglass Rankin, Harry Reese, Sandra Reese, Miles Regis, Lucas Reiner, Robert A. Richert, Ines Roberts, Emmanuelle Rohrlich, Joan Rosenberg-Dent , Amy Rueffert, Katie King Rumford, Chris Rupp, Linda Saccoccio, Gwen Samuels, Susan Savage, Jan Schachter, Adrea Scheidler, Herb Schnabel , Shanon Schock, Marie Schoeff, Denise Schryver, Stacey Schuett, Francis Scorzelli, David Scott , Mari Seder, Rosanne Seitz, Carol Selter, Charles Senties, Shelter Serra, Jeff Sewell, Josh Shelton, Steve Shelton, Elijah Shelton, David Shelton , Elizabeth Sher, Leslie Lewis Sigler, Peter Sis, Dragana Skrepnik, Alexis Smith , Joe Sola, Barry Spacks, Ginny Speirs, Garrett Speirs, Judy Spiegel , Lisbeth Springer, Chris Staley, Mark Alan Stamaty , Mary Stanley , Teri Starkweather, Virginia Stawiecki , Rebecca Stebbins, Gretel Stephens, Joshua J. Stewart, Elaine Stewart, Randall Stout, Roni Stretch, Marlene Struss, Joel Sturdivant Sr., Jane Sun, Joe Suzuki, Matcha Suzuki, Eva Svitek, Joan Tanner, Herb Tews, Susan Tibbles , Patty Tierney, Sandra Tollefson, Sylvia Torres, Iren Eerren Tsaturyan, Ann Tubbs, Ezra Tucker , Regina Tumasella , Carrie Ungerman, James VanArsdale, Bob VanBreda, Jacqueline Vanderlaan, Christy Venable , Iben G. Vestergaard, Cydette Vikander, Jerome Walford, Lawrence Wallin , Karyn Walsh, Patti Warashina, Eric D. Ward, Nina deCreeft Ward, Kristin Weaver , Marnie Weber, Jack Weimer, Kurt Weiser, Allison Wells, Kurt Wenner , Dave Wheeler, Roe Anne White, Dorene White , Moníca Wíesblott, Sara Wilcox, Richard Wilke , C.P. Willer, Sofia Williams , Joyce Wilson, Paige Wilson , Lyn Winter, Roger Winter , Sister Helen Wolkerstorfer, Steven Wolkoff, Nathan Woods, Peter Worsley, Deborah Alston Wroblewski, Dan Young, Jody Zellen, Siu Zimmerman, Don Zimmerman, Michele Zuzalek

View from Here: Works by Santa Barbara Artists in the Permanent Collection

View from Here provides a selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photography from the permanent collection by artists currently living and working in Santa Barbara, and represents works acquired from 1955 through the present. Moreover, many of these artists have also made their impact on countless art students as educators at UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College.

Artists in the exhibition include Richard Aber, Phil Argent, Eric Beltz, Hilary Brace, Gary Brown, Nell Campbell, Irma Cavat, Anne Diener, Michael Dvortcsak, Dane Goodman, Mary Heebner, Gerald Incandela, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Hank Pitcher, Keith Puccinelli, Harry Reese, William Rohrbach, Marie Schoeff, Ilene Segalove, Rick Stich, and Joan Tanner. While the exhibition presents only a fraction of the local talent, it speaks to the ongoing cultural vitality of an extraordinary place.

If you like what you see here, be sure to check out these current and upcoming shows at other local galleries and museums:

Phil Argent-Container Love @ Jane Deering Gallery (presented by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara); September 22 – November 5, 2011

Keith Puccinelli @ Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College; November 4 – December 9, 2011

Marie Schoeff @ Jane Deering Gallery, opens Jan 5, 2012

Rafael Perea de la Cabada: Alien Heartland @ Westmont Museum of Art; February 23 – March 31, 2012

Press Release:

http://www.sbmuseart.org/library/files/View%20from%20Here%20release%20%20FINAL.pdf

August 29, 2011 – Jan 21, 2012    press release
The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission presents an exhibition, Few Chosen by Many: A Berkus Selection, August 29, 2011 – Jan 21, 2012, and the reception will be held 1st Thursday, September 1, 2011, 5-8pm at the Channing Peake Gallery in the County Administration Building. The exhibition, drawn from The Barry Berkus and Family Art Collection, in memory of Gail Berkus, takes on a new twist, with community curators selecting one work each from the collection. Art appreciators from diverse careers and backgrounds chose a work that resonated with them and each one posts their reasons for their choice.

The “Few” in the title refers to the small selection of works by the curators, and the “Many” refers to the diversity of careers of those who were invited to choose a work from the Berkus Collection: accountant, educator, librarian, chef, museum guard, prosecutor, entrepreneur, hairstylist, veterinarian and horticulturist are among the many careers of the guest curators.  Rita Ferri, the Curator of Collections for the County of Santa Barbara and organizer of this exhibition said, “I hope that viewers to the exhibition come away with the realization that liking and choosing art is not an activity limited to a few special people; that each of us makes choices each day; we all respond to different colors, images, and mediums. Many do this without a background in art history or curating. They have taught themselves over a lifetime to look at art critically and to appreciate it.”

Barry Berkus, noted Santa Barbara architect, art collector, and philanthropist, donated a large number of regional artworks from his collection to the County of Santa Barbara in 2006, through the County Arts Commission. All of the works given are by artists who live, or lived for an extended period, in the Santa Barbara area. This gift, The Barry Berkus and Family Art Collection, represents over 70 art works and spans 25 years of collecting work by area artists.

Mr. Berkus and his late wife, Gail, were recognized by Art News magazine as among the top 200 art collectors in the world. Their modern and contemporary collection was noted for its diversity and for large-scale artworks by such well known artists as Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Nancy Graves, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Diebenkorn and Ed Ruscha. While recognized for their collection of internationally and nationally known artists’ artworks, the Berkus’ were also keenly interested in and supportive of Santa Barbara area artists. They bought work from the artists’ studios, galleries, and auctions. Berkus remains committed to art of the region as he continues to collect work of regional artists with his wife Jo Berkus.

A color catalog with essay by Josef Woodard and designed by The Lily Guild Temple of Design is available from the County Arts Commission at www.sbartscommission.org or 5683990.

Rafael Perea de la Cabada

“Spaces We Touch/Espacios Que Tocamos”

Architectural Foundation Gallery: July 15 – August 26, 2011

Opening Reception: July 15, 5 – 7pm

1^st Thursday Reception: August 4, 2011

The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB) is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition, “Spaces We Touch/Espacios Que Tocamos,” by Rafael Perea de la Cabada. You are invited to attend a festive opening reception for the artist on Friday, July 15 from 5-7 pm.  A 1^st Thursday reception will be held on August 4 from 5-8 pm.

Rafael Perea de la Cabada has a philosophical approach to art, exploring fundamental human complexities. Multimedia layers complement the nuanced subtext of each piece, creating endless permutations of meaning which prompt intellectual thought and conversation. This exhibition is composed of two distinct but mutually referential bodies of work. Both series are connected through the visual exploration of sound and speech as “shape/space forming” and energy giving components of our daily life interactions.

“Informed by archetypal Jungian ideas, by a thorough familiarity with art history ranging from cave paintings and pictographs to tribal effigies, contemporary lyrical abstraction and symbolic figuration, they reveal rather than proclaim or inform.”

-Josine Ianco Starrels, Independent Curator, Los Angeles

Born in Mexico City, this award-winning artist has lived in Santa Barbara since 1987. Perea received a degree from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking in Mexico City and went on to earn his MFA from UCSB.  He has exhibited at many galleries and museums in Southern California including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), the Contemporary Arts Forum, The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and the Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica.  His work is included in numerous public and private collections throughout Europe and the Americas.

Perea teaches at SB City College and has served as a Master Artist for multiple projects for both SBMA and The Arts Fund. He recently completed an important public art project in collaboration with designer Richard Irvine.  The collaboration was part of the West Beach Improvement Project on the Santa Barbara waterfront, and includes three landmark designs of bronze and mosaic along the promenade.  The Architectural Foundation exhibition leads up to Perea’s retrospective at Westmont College Museum of Art in 2012.

Rafael Perea de la Cabada and AFSB would like to specially thank the generous sponsors of this exhibit: Brian K. O’Connor, Attorney at Law; Fred Fisher, Trinity Capital Management LLC; David Dart DDS; Tim Quiroz; and The Arts Fund.  The 1^st Thursday reception will be presented in collaboration with the SB Downtown Organization.

The Architectural Foundation Gallery is located in the historic Acheson House on the corner of Garden and East Victoria Streets in Santa Barbara. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9 am to 2 pm, and by appointment. The gallery entrance is on Garden Street, and is accessible by ramp.  We look forward to seeing you!

Additional images are available upon request.  For more information please call 805-965-6307.

Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara

229 East Victoria Street

Santa Barbara, CA  93101

(805)965-6307

info@afsb.org

www.afsb.org

www.rafaelperea.com

www.irvinecabada.com

www.facebook.com – Rafael Perea de la Cabada

“Ink”

March 11^th-April 4^th, 2011.

Artist Reception: March 11^th, 5:30-7:30pm

Surface and Silence. Exhibition of Recent work by

Wesley Hurd and Rafael Perea de la Cabada,

Jacobs Gallery, at the Hult Center. February 11 to march 26, 2011. Eugene, Oregon.

Statement from the Artists

The idea for this exhibition came from the personal and collaborative friendship between these two west coast artists. Their long distance dialogue and creative interactions over twenty years has often produced work of similar intention and poetic spirit.

Surface and Silence exhibits work partially shaped by their shared views and experiences. The exhibition is composed of small scale mixed media works on paper and small canvases. For Perea and Hurd, the mental and physical complexities in the art making process are of foremost importance. Their work is formed from the exploratory labyrinths of matter, thought and spirit where “unexpected directions are expected”. The resulting artwork is a by-product of these explorations and it is intended to arrive unannounced as if from the back door without fanfare, but essential.

For them a completed work is a momentary visual recess in a larger journey. As it is in life, work is never “finished,” it just ceases to demand their attention. The title of the show indicates the artists’ shared conviction that art emerges from and within the connectedness of inner and outer life. The traces and imagery left on the surface betray inner precincts that lay in the silence where thought begins. As Rafael has said, “Art has a transformative power, a delicate volatility that triggers our craving for a deeper perceptual level.”

Importantly, Perea and Hurd believe that art comes alive in the shared investment of maker and viewer where its “currency of the soul” and potential resonance begins.

As with the writer of music, in these works the score has been “composed”. The receiving “performance” remains yielding to new directions and  ”facing our own music” to become participants in the exploration.

100  Grand at Sullivan Goss-  An American Gallery

Second annual show features 100 original works of art

DATES: December 2, 2010 – February 27, 2011

OPENING: 1st Thursday, December 2 | From 5 – 8PM

ARTISTS FEATURED: Tony Askew, Rebekah Bogard, Ken Bortolazzo, Perry Castellano, Melissa Chandon, Connie Connally, Alia El-Bermani, Martha Erlebacher, Richard Erdusun, Nan…cy Faulkner, Jon Francis, Rafael Gaete, Nancy Gifford, Dane Goodman, Robin Gowen, Colin Gray, Tracey Sylvester Harris, Dan Levin, Larry Mills, Jennifer Moses, Brad Nack, Ken Nack, John Nava, Zoe Nathan, Zack Paul, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Angela Perko, Chris Peters, Hank Pitcher, Ian Putnam, Robert Redfield, Brad Reyes, Blakeney Sanford, Susan Savage, Elena Siff, Barry Spacks, Nicole Strasburg, Jane Taylor, James David Thomas, Susan Tibbles, Dug Uyesaka, Sarah Vedder, Monica Weisblott

PREVIEW THE SHOW ONLINE:

http://www.sullivangoss.com/Exhibits/100_Grand2.asp

ART REVIEW in The Santa Barbara Independent

http://www.independent.com/news/2010/dec/11/em100-grandem-sullivan-goss/