(Pics) The Urban Landscape Paintings Of Marc Trujillo

The World’s Fair points us to the work of Marc Trujillo, an urban landscape painter who depicts the big box retail stores, gas stations and fast food chains that fill our modern suburban and urban environments. His paintings brilliantly highlight the flat, mechanical nature of these spaces.

From his artist statement:

Free of political or moral overtones, these works function both as modern North American genre scenes (much like the 17th-century Dutch genre scenes of marketplaces, courtyards, and flower stalls) and as painterly meditations on color, light, and form.

According to art historian Andrew Forge, in Trujillo’s paintings “time is rescued, transformed from loss to duration [and] absence is given presence.”1 All of the places Trujillo depicts contribute to the increasingly fast-paced world in which we live, where attention spans have diminished beyond the point of no return. Trujillo, however, subverts this freneticism by capturing it in an objective, but highly aesthetic manner, that allows the viewer to experience an alternative reality present in such quotidian locales.

Marc Trujillo [via The World's Fair]