5:30 pm Lamar Dodd School of Art S151 Sponsored by: Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Lamar Dodd School of Art Contact: artinfo@uga.edu 706-542-1511 Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation.His art revolves largely around language. Directly informed by historic events, material significance, and the format of jokes, his subject matter deals with sociopolitical circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. His work has been exhibited at venues including the deYoung Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Orange County Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Cue Arts Foundation, and the Asia Society in NY. Arcega’s work has been discussed in publications including Art Forum, the New York Times, Art Practical, Art News, X-TRA, SF Chronicle, Artweek, Art Papers, and Flash Art among others. He is a recipient of a grant from Artadia, Joan Mitchell MFA Award, Murphy Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship, and Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Fellowship. He has been an Artist in Residence at the 18th Street Art Center, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Fountainhead Residency in Miami.Arcega was born in Manila, Philippines, and migrated to Los Angeles when he was 10 years old. He relocated to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute where he received a BFA. And later, he attended Stanford University for his MFA. He is based in San Francisco, but currently working at the Artadia Residency Program in NY. He was recently awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.This lecture is part of the Lamar Dodd School of Arts 2012-2013 Visiting Artist and Scholar Series. Lamar Dodd School of Art