Rafael Perea de la Cabada Presents Mixed
Media Work in
“Los Amorosos” (The Lovers)
at The Museum of Ventura County’s Tool Room
Gallery
Ventura, CA – In the spirit of The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time
initiative, renowned visual artist Rafael Perea de la Cabada will present a new
body of work that explores the subject of human touch: physical, spiritual,
social, and psychological. “Los
Amorosos” (The Lovers), features painting, mixed media on paper, prints, and
ceramic objects and opens with a public reception on Friday, September 1st
from 6 to 9 pm at The Museum of Ventura County’s Tool Room Gallery at the BellArts Factory at 432 N. Ventura Ave., Ventura, CA.
“We live to relate and we relate
to live,” says Cabada, “In this time of persistent unrest, we are reminded
through the artist’s work, of the power of connection and relationship; to
ourselves and to each other.”
When commenting on Perea’s art,
Charles Donavan of the Santa Barbara Independent said, “The new Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art …could not ask
for a better introduction to its potential than the Rafael Perea de la Cabada
show Alien Heartland. Cabada’s bold,
imaginative work in multiple media has never looked better, or more complete,
than it does in this handsome room…Cabada is a central figure in our art
community here in Santa Barbara, and his is a story and an oeuvre that we
should all both know and celebrate”.
Award-winning artist Rafael Perea
de la Cabada was born in Mexico City and has lived and worked in Santa Barbara
and Ventura, CA since 1987. Perea received a degree from the National School of
Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking in Mexico City and went on to earn his
M.F.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has exhibited at many galleries and
museums in Southern California including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the
Contemporary Arts Forum, The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, and the
Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica.
He has also shown in New York, Washington, Tennessee, Texas, Mexico,
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Croatia, Spain, and Germany. His work is included in
numerous public and private collections in Mexico, Switzerland, France,
Germany, and the United States.
Rafael teaches Painting and
Drawing in the Fine Arts Department at Santa Barbara City College and has
served as a Master Artist for mentorship programs, master classes, and mural
projects for both the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and The Arts Fund. He recently had a solo exhibition, “Mexico
Para Armar,” at UNAM in Mexico City, completed an important Public Art
Commission with designer Richard Irvine on the West Beach Pedestrian
Improvement Project for the City of Santa Barbara, and served as the Founding
Art Director for The Animal Museum Los Angeles. To learn more visit:
www.rafaelperea.com
The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time is a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American
and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard
Time: LA/LA is the latest collaborative effort from arts institutions across
Southern California. As a Mexican national who has spent equal amounts of time
living in the United States, Perea brings a unique perspective to this conversation
of art, identity, and what it means to be human in this current exhibition,
“Los Amorosos” (The Lovers).
