Exhibition Statement
Opening Saturday, October 15th with a reception from 5-9pm, Keystone Art Space Gallery presents “Inevitable Entails”, a solo exhibition by Beth Davila Waldman comprised of 13 paintings deeply immersed in her empathetic approach of reading landscape considering the historical, social and political contexts from which they are derived. Using an unbridled intaglio approach in presenting her documentary style photographs, Waldman alludes to the layered economic landscapes and narrative inscapes within the walls of these residential and commercial sites expressing pathos and indications of hope for the developing urban conditions. Using contemporary landscapes from Hong Kong captured in 2018 and Vietnam in 2019, Waldman creates glass walls between the conscious and unconscious with her distilled responses to her photographic images using paint.
Opening Reception Saturday, October 15th 5pm-9pm
Exhibition Dates October 15th-30th, 2022
Gallery Hours Tues-Fri 12-5pm
Document Walk Through Sat Oct 22nd 12-5pm
Personal Artist Walk Through Sun Oct 16th & Sun Oct 30th 12-5pm
Beth Davila Waldman
Born in Princeton, NJ in 1975, Beth Davila Waldman launched her career in the arts initially at Wellesley College with her sculptural thesis “Transposing Time and Culture: Personal and Abstract Interpretations of Inca and Pre-Incan Artwork”. She continued her commitment to exploring site, colonization and culture at San Francisco Art Institute with a second degree where her work was recognized with the 2004 annual Harold E. Weiner Memorial Sculpture Award. Waldman has been awarded residencies at 18th Street Art Residency, Kala Art Institute, Playa Institute, and Edition/Basel. Recent invitation lectures have included at Photo Alliance and Irvine Center for the Arts. Waldman’s work has been also been featured at the de Young Museum, the Codex Foundation’s 2021 Extraction Catalog and the 2021 Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach’s Special Project “Three Turns Miami”. In 2022, Waldman’s “Division Series” was featured in a two-person show at the Irvine Fine Arts Center in Orange County, CA and in “Mapping the Sublime: Reframing Landscape in the 21st Century” at the Brand Library and Arts Center in Glendale, CA. Waldman’s studio is currently based in Los Angeles, CA at Keystone Art Space.
Artist Statement
My art practice explores the impact of socio-political trends on cultural landscapes, often through imagery and material laden with indicators of economic and social status presented in a manner that emulates the sheer stress of imposed change using process practice and the language of paint. My art strives to address global industrial and environmental concerns witnessed during my travels in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Portugal and Greece over the past several years with my ancestral homeland Peru serving as a foundational site with personal history laden with memories from my earliest visits in the 1970s.
