"I go into the world to see what I think might make a good painting…”
-Marc Trujillo

Starting with sketches and also working from photographs, artist Marc Trujillo creates exquisitely detailed paintings of the unexceptional elements of our daily lives. From lights reflecting off of cold steel and glass high-rises, or row after row of aisles in a supermarket, to the flickering neon signs of the local gas station or fast-food restaurant, his paintings redefine the tradition of American landscape painting by examining how consumerism and capitalism have literally shaped our landscape. We pass by without thought, for the most part without even looking, because these spaces have become the common background of our lives. They exist in nearly every town and city across the expanse of America. These places are everywhere, could be anywhere, and are so ubiquitous that they might as well be nowhere at all.

Marc Trujillo is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Trujillo received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art where he received the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Prize as well as the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Trust Fellowship. Trujillo also received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008.