Miguel Arzabe, Denver III, 2024, woven acrylic on canvas and linen, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Arzabe works in painting, weaving, and video. He starts by finding outdated beauty in paper ephemera from art shows, modernist paintings, and discarded audio recordings. These materials are methodically analyzed, deconstructed, reverse-engineered. Drawing inspiration from the cultural techniques and motifs of his Andean heritage, Arzabe weaves the fragments together revealing uncanny intersections between form and content, the nostalgic and the hard-edged, failure and recuperation.