Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza
15 Oct 2011 - 22 Jan 2012
MURAL REMIX: SANDRA DE LA LOZA
15 October, 2011 – 22 January, 2012
Sandra de la Loza is the founder of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History and an artist whose work critically engages archival research. For this exhibition, she is developing a visual "mashup" of mural iconographies in a mixed media installation incorporating light boxes, video, and audio soundtrack. In effect, she is rewriting the history of muralism based on what was actually painted, as a set of predominant styles, during the 1970s. This includes psychedelic imagery, countercultural references, and landscape and animal imagery. Based on de la Loza's painstaking research of over 500 murals, her project separates the mural movement and its impact on urban space from realism. Working with musician and Ozomatli group member Raul Pacheco, the installation reintroduces the iconographic elements of this previously invisible work as a multimedia performative event. Mural Remix is part of the multi-part exhibition cycle Los Angeles: The Mexican Presence in Los Angeles, 1945–1980, which presents the artistic contributions of Mexican-American and Chicano artists to American art and to Los Angeles's artistic development. The multiyear project is an organizational collaboration that will culminate in three separate exhibitions to be held concurrently at the Autry National Center, UCLA Fowler Museum, and LACMA.
15 October, 2011 – 22 January, 2012
Sandra de la Loza is the founder of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History and an artist whose work critically engages archival research. For this exhibition, she is developing a visual "mashup" of mural iconographies in a mixed media installation incorporating light boxes, video, and audio soundtrack. In effect, she is rewriting the history of muralism based on what was actually painted, as a set of predominant styles, during the 1970s. This includes psychedelic imagery, countercultural references, and landscape and animal imagery. Based on de la Loza's painstaking research of over 500 murals, her project separates the mural movement and its impact on urban space from realism. Working with musician and Ozomatli group member Raul Pacheco, the installation reintroduces the iconographic elements of this previously invisible work as a multimedia performative event. Mural Remix is part of the multi-part exhibition cycle Los Angeles: The Mexican Presence in Los Angeles, 1945–1980, which presents the artistic contributions of Mexican-American and Chicano artists to American art and to Los Angeles's artistic development. The multiyear project is an organizational collaboration that will culminate in three separate exhibitions to be held concurrently at the Autry National Center, UCLA Fowler Museum, and LACMA.