Marc Trujillo (born 1966) is an American painter.
Artistic Style
His paintings depict places common to North American urban and suburban landscapes such as big chain and
warehouse stores,
gas stations
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Gasoline ...
,
shopping malls, and
chain restaurants
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.
Trujillo’s paintings are fundamentally synthetic in nature, and represent not only the experience of direct observation, but also an appreciation and awareness of paintings and painters of the past. Each finished painting is the sum of a series of steps that begin with drawing and preparatory sketches. Before beginning the final oil painting, Trujillo completes a
grisaille, a monochromatic underpainting that allows him to establish the initial composition of each work.
Personal
Trujillo was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and currently resides in Los Angeles where he teaches at
Santa Monica College. He received his BA in 1991 from the
University of Texas at Austin and his MFA in 1994 from the
Yale University School of Art where he received the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Prize as well as the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Trust Fellowship.
Awards
In 2001, Trujillo received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and in 2008, he received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
Trujillo Wins Prestigious Guggenheim
References
External links
MarcTrujillo.com
Artfacts.net
Marc Trujillo, ArtWorks Magazine
Marc Trujillo, LA Weekly
Marc Trujillo at Santa Monica College
Sonce Alexander Gallery
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Yale School of Art alumni
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Living people
1966 births
American male painters