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Michael Arcega (born 1973, Manila, Philipp … Michael Arcega (born 1973, Manila, Philippines) is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist who works mainly in sculpture and installation. Critics have described his work as a fusion of accessible materials, meticulous craftsmanship, politically barbed punning and conceptual rigor that balances light-hearted play with serious critique. His practice is informed by history, research, geography and his personal, insider-outsider sensibility as a naturalized Filipino-American; he frequently links historical eras and disparate geographies in order to address the present via the past. While visual, his art is often inspired by bilingual wordplay, jokes and jumbled signifiers. It explores cross-cultural exchange, colonization, sociopolitical dynamics and imbalances, and cultural markers embedded in objects, food, architecture, visual lexicons, and vernacular languages. Sculpture critic Laura Richard Janku wrote that Arcega "melds myriad aspects of past and present, high and low, humor and horror into the messy melting pot of history, politics and culture." Arcega has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Artadia, among others. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco) and de Young Museum, and in the California Biennial.ng Museum, and in the California Biennial.
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Michael Arcega (born 1973, Manila, Philipp … Michael Arcega (born 1973, Manila, Philippines) is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist who works mainly in sculpture and installation. Critics have described his work as a fusion of accessible materials, meticulous craftsmanship, politically barbed punning and conceptual rigor that balances light-hearted play with serious critique. His practice is informed by history, research, geography and his personal, insider-outsider sensibility as a naturalized Filipino-American; he frequently links historical eras and disparate geographies in order to address the present via the past. While visual, his art is often inspired by bilingual wordplay, jokes and jumbled signifiers. It explores cross-cultural exchange, colonization, sociopolitical dynamics and imbalances, and cultural markers emcs and imbalances, and cultural markers em
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