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. Here curatorial projects and writing are extensions of this practice.
Maternal Waters looks back four generations to her maternal great grandmother and the idea of migration using imagery taken along the Peruvian Mollendo coast of the Pacific Ocean considering unknown memories and the politic nature of relocating for survival
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
Inevitable Entails No. 1, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 58x40in.
Inevitable Entails No. 2, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 40x58in.
Inevitable Entails No. 3, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 40x58in.
Inevitable Entails No. 4, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 40x58in.
Inevitable Entails No. 5, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 40x58in.
Inevitable Entails No. 6, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 26x40in SOLD
Inevitable Entails No. 7, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 26x40in
Inevitable Entails No. 8, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 26x40in
Inevitable Entails No. 9, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 40x26in
Inevitable Entails No. 10, 2020, Archival Pigment and Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 40x26in
In the permanent collection of Kala Institute
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