Miguel Arzabe, Denver III, 2024 Woven acrylic on canvas and linen 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) (MA 24146) Miguel Arzabe Denver III, 2024 Woven acrylic on canvas and linen 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) (MA 24146) Miguel Arzabe, Denver III, 2024, woven acrylic on canvas and linen, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Miguel Arzabe makes colorful and dynamic abstractions—weavings, paintings, videos. He starts by finding outdated beauty in paper ephemera from art shows, modernist paintings, and discarded audio recordings. They are methodically analyzed, deconstructed, and 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.