R.A.L. WEST RESUME

 

Group Textile Exhibit            Mimbres Region Arts Council Gallery 

 

Silver City, NM         Juried                                                                         11/06-2/07

 

 Breaking the Myth – From Art to Craft and Beyond

 

The Taos Art Association  Stables Gallery   Taos, NM             Juried    11/98-12/ 98

 

 Ladies of the Night:    Dreamworks of  Contemporary Women Artists

 

Guadalupe Fine Art  Santa Fe , NM                           Invitational               4/97-5/97

 

 

Private practice and trainer, Holistic Health in CA, OR, NM, CO              1987-95

 

Name change. All works before 1987 signed “CUCA”                                   1988

 

 Wall reliefs in textiles; and in mixed media.    

 

Primarily commissions for interior designers.                                                 1987-93

                                                          

 

Taos Art Association Members’ Group Exhibit                                       

 

Stables Gallery     Taos, NM                                                                               1988  

 

 

Designer of women’s mass produced clothing lines. Los Angeles and  India   1979-84

 

 Work in textiles. Primarily Art Couture. Retail, commissions, exhibitions.     1974-82

 

 Selected group exhibitions:

 

 Art For Wearing  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 

 

San Francisco, CA         Invitational                                                                        1979

 

 Traditional Means – Contemporary Themes     Malone Art Gallery

 

Loyola Marymount University  Los Angeles, CA      Invitational                            1978

 

Curator: Mary Hunt Kahlenberg  LACMA

 

 The Great American Foot          Museum of Contemporary Crafts

 

(Today it’s Museum of Art and Design – M.A.D.)    New York, NY  

 

Subsequent traveling show, major U.S. cities – 18 months   Invitational       1977-79

 

 Philadelphia Museum Craft Show     Philadelphia, PA       Invitational        1977  

 

 Meier, Brier, Weiss Gallery   San Francisco, CA              Invitational        1977

 

 Julie: Artisan Gallery      New York, NY      Various invitational exhibits     1975-79

 

 

Born August 5, 1943.

 

Self-educated artist and designer.

 

Commissions in the collection of performers Patti LaBelle; and Nona Hendryx

 

Works in the private collection of Elton John; and of Ellen Burstyn.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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