Beth Davila Waldman is a cross-disciplinary artist using photography, painting, assemblage and installation. Her work explores the impact of socio-political trends on cultural landscapes, often through imagery laden with indicators of economic and social status, presented in a manner that emulates the sheer stress of imposed change. Waldman’s constructed vistas re-conceive the notion of sanctuary amidst the realities of colonization, and invite meditations on civil access. Waldman imbues her work with a unique materiality by printing or transferring photographs on a plethora of materials—from tarp to sails, canvas to paper. She then often makes interventions into her work with paint and other substances. Her curatorial projects and writing are extensions of this practice.
Beth Davila Waldman presents The Three Gratia to offer ideals of fortitude, reciprocal caring, and sanctuary as pathways within unfolding debates surrounding Mother Earth. Embracing themes of eco-feminism, this project has roots in the Latin word gratia, the architectural Caryatids of the Erechtheum temple primarily dedicated Athena, and the artist’s signature ultramarine blue nodding to the aqueduct which once revived The Valley’s economy. Ecofeminism is often presented as site-specific artwork that addresses the state of being under the control of a system that is oppressive and unfair for both the environment and of women.
La Ocupación No. 1, 2018, Acrylic Paint and Acrylic Pigment on Tarp, 60 x 86 1/2in
La Ocupación No. 2, 2019, Acrylic Paint and Acrylic Pigment on Tarp, 60 x 86 1/2inch
La Ocupación No. 4, 2019, Acrylic Paint and Archival Pigment on Tarp, 40x58in
La Ocupación No. 5, 2019, Acrylic Paint and Archival Pigment on Canvas, 39 1/8 x 58 3/8in SOLD
In the permanent collection of Kala Institute
