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IANA QUESNELL is the second emerging artist to be named as recipient of the San Diego Art Prize. Iana will exhibit her work with Jean Lowe at the L Street Fine Art Gallery from Nov. 18 - Feb. 18. Opening Reception is Saturday, Nov. 18 from 7-9pm. The viewer is initially pulled in to the work by its beautiful draftsmanship and the surprise of its scale but it’s the conceptual underpinnings that seal the deal. She’s quite literally drafting her life and this odd combination of technical drawing and autobiography yields an unexpected and original narrative. Iana Quesnell engages drawing as a mediating tool between her own body and her immediate surroundings. Often painfully honest these exceptional, large scale drawings take into account her every move with excruciating detail. Grab Life by the Horns is a diagrammatic drawing of the vehicle she lived in for seven months. In addition to how she slept in the space of the cab, it depicts the precise area where she parked and how the existing foliage provided a certain level of privacy.”
2006 Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA |
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2006-2007 SD ART PRIZE L STREET FINE ART GALLERY |
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Iana is from the southern states and is currently in the Masters Program at UCSD. Iana’s current work is about temporary living situations, specificity of place, as well as, navigation through the spaces she occupies and intends to occupy. Whether that be a military tent in Bosnia, her car, a studio on the border in Tijuana, or the Omni Hotel (for a week for this project), each incorporates architectural floor plans and schematic rendering with more experiential and ephemeral details.