San Francisco, CA: Avenue 12 Gallery presents Macro | Micro: Site to Psyche, a group exhibition of
three award winning San Francisco ArtSpan artists: Elizabeth Ashcroft, David Avery, and Beth Davila
Waldman. Beth Davila Waldman’s “Mollendo” series is the result of six odysseys to the site of her
maternal homeland Arequipa, Peru including the former capital town of Mollendo. Once a vibrant and
prosperous port town, today it is mostly a ghost town of colorful ruins existing with a few present day
homes. This juxtaposition of shifts in time, culture and economy was Waldman’s inspiration for the series.
Elizabeth Ashcroft refers to herself as an “altered book artist” and calls her latest series “The Dissected
Library”. The duality of the book as both a visual object and a conduit for ideas is a source of constant
inspiration. David Avery is a practitioner of traditional black and white copper plate etching and has long
been drawn to the works and techniques of the master etchers and engravers of the past 400 years as
well as their literary counterparts.
