NADA Miami 2025: Justin Favela and Miguel Arzabe

Ice Palace Film Studios 1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136 , 2 - 6 December 2025

Overview

Booth C313

David B Smith Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming participation in NADA Miami with a two-person booth featuring recent works by Justin Favela and Miguel Arzabe.

Both artists root their highly stylized practices in a deep engagement with craft and materiality, using labor-intensive, culturally grounded processes to address urgent questions of identity, place, and belonging.

Together, Favela and Arzabe bring distinct yet resonant and innovative approaches to cultural narrative and material transformation. Favela’s vibrant, piñata-inspired constructions, paintings, and Calderesque mobiles reinterpret familiar iconographies through the lens of lived experience and community histories, while Arzabe’s deconstructed and woven images explore the slippages between memory, migration, and abstraction. Presented side by side, their works invite viewers to consider how tradition, labor, and contemporary identity interweave in dynamic and unexpected ways.