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Project Description

Eastern Avenue Hill in East Los Angeles is a 124-acre site that houses the County Fire and Sheriff’s Departments, among others.  A steep and eroded slope on the south side of the hill is being rehabilitated with new native landscaping, drainage and irrigation to ensure long-term stabilization.

Artists Sandra de la Loza and Arturo Romo will execute a large-scale artwork on a section of the hill using a wide variety of colorful native plantings, stones and hardscapes. The artists identified a triangular area for the artwork at the dead end of Humphreys Avenue, where nearby residents of the community of Maravilla will have an uninterrupted vista of the terraced artwork as it climbs the steep slope.

Working in collaboration with the landscape architect, each slope will feature a distinct selection of plants whose color palettes will change with the seasons and over time. The palette of the stone hardscapes will be based in warm, soft earthen tones.  The artwork will create an experience of a monumental , colorful, ever-changing earthwork which recalls Mesoamerican culture and architecture and pays tribute to the social and cultural history of the nearby residents.

About the Artist

Sandra de la Loza holds an MFA in Photography and a BA in Chicano Studies. Her work has been included in exhibitions and she has served on panels  internationally. Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano, who holds a BFA in painting, has been working on a collaborative mural project for the last five years. The project, at Benjamin Franklin Senior High School in Los Angeles, involves students, teachers and the community designing and executing over 4,000 square feet of murals, covering four stories of the school. The murals interpret and re-tell the history of Northeast Los Angeles. Both artists were featured in exhibitions during Pacific Standard Time in 2011: de la Loza, in a solo show, Mural Remix: Chicano Muralism and the Social Sublime at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Romo, in Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement a the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.