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Tree by Tree, from Sea to Mountains

Artist: Méndez, Rebeca

Object Date: 2008

Medium: Vinyl

Imperial Dims: Overall: 180 x 1584 in.

Department(s): Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk

Supervisorial District: 4

About the Artwork:

Tree by Tree, from Sea to Mountains by artist Rebeca Méndez, is located at the Registrar Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Elections Operation Center (EOC) in Santa Fe Springs. The imposing photographic banner celebrates the majestic nature of Los Angeles County’s diverse tree population. The banner stretches 132 feet and provides a 180-degree skyward pan from the Pacific Ocean to the San Gabriel Mountains. Tree by Tree provides a dramatic, yet calming, element to the work environment of the facility’s 100 employees. In developing her design, the artist considered the EOC’s key functions: registration of voters and maintenance of voter files, conduct of federal, state, local and special elections, marriage license issuance and the performance of civil marriage ceremonies, recording legal documents which determine ownership of real property, and maintenance of birth, death and marriage records for Los Angeles County.

About the Artist:

Rebeca Méndez is a Los Angeles-based artist, graphic designer and professor with the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts. At the beginning of her career, she moved from her native Mexico City to southern California and received her MFA from Art Center College of Design. Méndez has exhibited and held residencies internationally and is the recipient of several awards, most recently the 2012 National Design Award for Communication Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In addition to other public art commissions, Méndez completed an artwork for the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder County Clerk Election Operations Center in 2008.