[10] While studying at the Slade, De la Cruz removed the stretcher bar of a painted canvas.
"[12] Her work, treating paintings as a three-dimensional object rather than a two-dimensional representation, follows a tradition that includes the spatialism of Lucio Fontana in the 1940s.
[13] Her 1995 work Ashamed, is a small straw-yellow painting, broken in half, which is exhibited wedged into a corner between two gallery walls.
[17] Ready to Wear (1997–2003) is series of red canvases, part-ripped from its frame, as if the painting were getting dressed.
Her first solo exhibition in the UK, entitled After, was held at Camden Arts Centre in April and May 2010.
[20] In recent years de la Cruz has also used aluminium as a base material for her work.