Yumpu_Catalogue_Peacemaking

He currently is Professor of Art at Bowling
Green State University, and serves as a
National AP Studio Art Reviewer. Arrigo has
taught painting at Studio Arts Center
International in Florence, Italy and served for
two years as the director of Young Artists at
Work, a nationally recognized arts outreach
program for young adults.
Michael Arrigo
Michael Arrigo is a multi-disciplinary artist
based in Toledo, Ohio. He received his M.F.A.
in Painting and Drawing from the Ohio State
University and has been included in many
national juried and invitational exhibitions.
He has received a G.C.A.C. Individual Artists
Fellowship, and awards from The Columbus
Museum of Art, The Maser Museum of Art and
The Toledo Museum of Art.
Recent solo exhibitions include Crumbs Gather
in the Folds at the Mariani Gallery in Greeley
CO; Packing Up at Cascade Gallery in Portland,
OR; and Interface with Jake Rowland at the
Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery in Miami FL.
“People die, often at the hands of other
people. Death, however, cannot die. This is
perhaps one of the things that make it
troubling and powerful. Death cannot do what
it is and therefor it persists in being.
Similarly, words cannot speak. They cannot
bring themselves into being. Euphemisms are
the words that we humans breathe into
existence because we dare not speak the
words that cannot speak themselves- words
that might actually materialize the world as it
is. Euphemisms are the words we speak to
bring a less troubling more convenient world
into existence, a parallel world of alternative
facts (thank you Kellyanne Conway). Spade, A
Spade is an attempt to lay some of the
euphemisms of drone warfare to rest.”
Michael Arrigo | April 2018
Spade, A Spade
Digital imaging on canvas | 183 x 245 cm
2017
www.michaelarrigo.com