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Ampersand International Arts

October 14 - November 12, 2011

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1001 Tennessee Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Falling In court, 2011, oil on panel, 20 x 12.5
falling in, Miguel Arzabe's first solo show in San Francisco, offers new paintings created in his studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts and new videos conceived in natural areas in northern California and the Sierra Nevada mountains. "As activities governed by explicit rules and regulations, games seem to represent an ideal formal structure: the pure space of intelligible boundaries, a set of available strategies, a winner, a loser, and a clear, common goal. Subscribing to the confines of this structure would seem to promise a steady progression from the obscure towards the conclusive, from the unknown to the known. Arzabe’s works court the clarity of the system, the rules of the game, yet complicate the idea of a sure and certain outcome. They celebrate both the formal procedure, and the value of falling in, letting go. Fixed contours, lines, measures, and rules mingle with intuition, emotion, error, and formlessness, implying an arena in which forces both visible and invisible, both intentional and aleatory, are at play." -Bonnie Begusch, 2011 from the exhibition brochure San Francisco artist Miguel Arzabe holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, with an MS in Environmental Fluid Dynamics from Arizona State University and an MFA from University of California Berkeley. Arzabe's work was selected for Hors Pistes 2011 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The More Things Change at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Lightness and Dark at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. He was commissioned for a site-specific installation at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History for LAND/ART New Mexico. His work will be included in a forthcoming show culled from the 101 Collection at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Arzabe's work is held in private and public collections, nationally and internationally. Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 12:00-5:00pm and appointment
Falling In
Falling In peek(Light Wait), 2011, HD video and sound, 1 min 44 sec