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University of California, Berkeley

October 18 - October 18, 2010

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An avid sense of humor, combined with a poignant interest in social control, decay, and violence, characterize the work of San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega. Upon receiving an MFA from Stanford University in 2009, Arcega was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, as well as the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Misusefulness, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; The Collaspe, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco; and omg, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. His Valencia Street Posts, produced by the San Francisco Arts Commission, were permanently installed along San Francisco's Valencia Street in June 2010. Arcega is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the The Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, The Bonwitt – Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.