“I have known Rafael Arzuaga as a Cuban born,San Francisco artist since 2003. As an Africanist art historian,part of my work at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is to find contemporary artists whose works meaningfully reference diverse artistic,cultural and philosophical precepts found in Africa. This helps maintain a sense of continuity between works in our collection and the current thoughts and approaches to interpretation that contemporary artist may provide. Arzuaga’s work precisely fits this paradigm. He comfortably manages an artistic language that is intimate to him; where his Cuban, American, Latin American and/or African American identity or identities seem to coalesce through the essence an African world view and views.”

Manuel Jordan Perez, Ph.D.

Curator

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Cantor Arts Center Stanford University