Artist Lorena Ochoa will lead a walkthrough and discussion of Ruegos y Desiertos at Charlie James Gallery 2 on Saturday March 30th, beginning at 1pm. Lorena Ochoa: Ruegos y Desiertos, a multimedia exhibition that explores parallels between the romanticization of bygone cowboy culture and present-day realities of migration, segregation, and immigration. Ochoa brings the stuff of everyday life into the work, and through that summons both the unique spirit of the immigrant neighborhood and the heavy weight of history. Found-object combines and sculptural assemblages juxtapose the familiar and the fantastic – deserts and dreams – in works that incisively critique the mythos of the American west through the lens of the Chicanx experience.