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Artist's Talk with Monique Prieto
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University Art Gallery, UCSD |
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9500 Gilman Drive
Mandeville Center - Recital Hal |
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La Jolla |
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CA |
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92093 |
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00-00-0000
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| Dates |
Starts On 02-27-2008 Ends On 02-27-2008
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| Event Description |
Monique Prieto is one of the artists featured in “In the Beginning”, the current exhibition at the University Art Gallery. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. In 2003, Prieto began using text taken from the nine-volume diary of a 17th Century Englishman, Samuel Pepys. Pepys is best known for his detailed firsthand accounts of major historical events such as the great London plague as well as his private and mundane accounts of his everyday life. Prieto presents the text in awkward block letters that were inspired by graffiti she saw on the side of the freeway. Like graffiti, the words are hard to read and can be experienced both as abstract form and readable text. In response to how difficult the work is to read Prieto says that she does not feel right ‘making readily accessible pictures'. Prieto will give and illustrated talk about her paintings and its development from abstract form to the deployment and use of language in her current work. |
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