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The idea of a socially engaged art is as old as ancient ritual and as new as Nicolas Bourriaud’s keenly influential book “Relational Aesthetics” (publ
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In the last several months, the shifting socio-cultural landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area has become the focus of the international media
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How do maps age? Perhaps they transform as they decay, changing from tools into documents of historical relations, artifacts of visual design
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'Hidden Cities: Experiments and Explorations': With urbanites' growing preference for bicycling and walking over driving has come a new interest
Read More'Hidden Cities: Experiments and Explorations': With urbanites' growing preference for bicycling and walking over driving has come a new interest
Read MoreHow do maps age? Perhaps they transform as they decay, changing from tools into documents of historical relations, artifacts of visual design
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Art galleries in the summer tend to have the same breezy feel as high schools during the last week or two of classes.
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When visiting a blockbuster art exhibition, it's not unusual to inevitably exit through a gift shop featuring mugs and junk commercially printed
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the selection of its 2012 Guggenheim Fellows. The 181 winners were culled from a field
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Michael Arcega (b. 1973 in Manila) lives and works in San Francisco.
He received his MFA degree in studio practice from Stanford University in California in 2009 and his BFA degree in interdisciplinary studies from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998.
Selected solo exhibitions include Homing Pidgen: Michael Arcega Collections Connections Program at the de Young Museum in San Francisco (2007); Getting Mid-Evil at Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco (2006); CERCA Series: Michael Arcega at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Downtown in San Diego, California (2005); Divide and Concur at Lucky Tackle in Oakland, California (2004); and Plein Hair for Leefahsalung at the New Chinatown Barbershop in Los Angeles (2002).
Selected group exhibitions include Age of Everything at Thomas Welton Stanford Gallery in Stanford, California (2007); One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now at the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, California (2007); Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (2007); The Landscape of War at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, California (2007); Quote Unquote at NURTUREart Gallery in New York (2007); and Galleon Trade: Philippines - California - Mexico at Mag:Net Galleries and Green Papaya Gallery in Manila (2007).
He is represented by Marx & Zavattero in San Francisco
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
