David B. Smith Gallery

Justin Favela and Miguel Arzabe root their highly stylized practices in a deep engagement with craft and materiality, using labor-intensive, culturally grounded processes to address urgent questions of identity, place, and belonging.

Favela’s vibrant, piñata-inspired constructions, paintings, and Calderesque mobiles reinterpret familiar iconographies through the lens of lived experience and community histories, while Arzabe’s deconstructed and woven images explore the slippages between memory, migration, and abstraction.