View From the East
Curated by Rita Gonzalez
in the Class:C Gallery at the“California Biennial”
Orange County Museum of Art, October 2004

Sandra de la Loza continues her investigation of the fine line between private and public histories in View From the East. De la Loza inserts three large-scale black & white prints into the condensed gallery space of Class:C distorting the viewer’s sense of scale. In addition to the spatial disorientation, de la Loza helps us alter the dominant geographic coordinates of the metropolis. The vantage point she captures—an establishing shot of the city from a film that has yet to be filmed—looks at the city “center” from the rolling hills of City Terrace. Rather than zoom in to the downtown, de la Loza invites the viewer to contemplate the many untold stories—or in her words, “magnitude of possibilities”—contained within the homes and yards of the east side.