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Visiting Artist Lecture: Marc Trujillo
March 8, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Visiting Artist Lecture: Marc Trujillo
7:00 p.m.
O’Donnell Hall – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd
FREE
Marc Trujillo is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and currently resides in Los Angeles. Marc primarily paints the purgatory of American urban and suburban landscapes such as gas stations, shopping malls, big chain stores, and restaurants, the figure plays a vital role in his work and the paintings are constructed so that the viewer is the primary figure. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his M.F.A. 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. In 2001, Marc received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and in 2008 he received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has had many shows on both coasts in the U.S. and currently shows with Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York and Chis Winfield Gallery in Carmel. His work is in numerous public and private collections including The Monterey Museum of Art, The Crocker Museum of Art, The Long Beach Museum, The Bakersfield Museum of Art and the New Britain Museum of Art.
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