IDOLWILD presents “Maternal Waters: Embracing Memory, Material and Politics”, a three artist exhibit featuring Katie Murken and Beth Davila Waldman.There will be an artist talk and closing reception Saturday, June 3rd 12-2PM with Daniel Gerwin, curator, artist and writer for various publications including ArtForum, Frieze and Hyperallergic. The talk will begin at 12:30pm. Gallery hours are Thursday – Saturday 1-4PM.
Curatorial Statement, Curator Beth Davila Waldman
“Maternal Waters: Embracing Memory, Material and Politics” brings together two unique vistas to maternal journeys of past and
present that have redefined landscape on personal and political levels for these two artists. Stemming from material and image based practices, Katie Murken and Beth Davila Waldman
present a series of new work using water as a vehicle of expression.
Katie Murken uses material and process to transform injustices to women into a source of power. For Maternal Waters Murken presents work from her ongoing Tabula series; multilayered
collage works that redefine femininity and the maternal by weaving together images drawn from agriculture and consumerism. After moving to California from Pennsylvania in
2018, Murken was entranced with the spectacle of industrial agriculture and the fiery debates over water use. These themes became the foundation for her deeply introspective comparison
of domesticity to the violation of the landscape through overconsumption and the depletion of natural resources. Murken produced several of the works for this exhibition during her 2021
residency at In Cahoots Printmaking Residency in Petaluma CA.
Curator and artist Beth Davila Waldman creates glass walls between the conscious & unconscious with her distilled responses to her photographic images using material and paint.
Launching a new series for this exhibition, Waldman presents select works from a 2023 series that 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.
