Event

Artist Talk: Caring, Nurturing, and Aging

with Pablo Tapay Bautista, Marna Clarke, and Germán Herrera

l-r: Pablo Tapay Bautista, The Passage, 2024 | Marna Clarke, Hand On Chest, 2013 | Germán Hererra, The Missions (mental map), from Transmigration of Ruin, 2021

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 6:00-8:00 p.m. (Doors at 5:30 p.m.) 
SFAC Main Gallery, 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102 
Free and open to the public

Join Metaphors of Recent Times exhibiting artists Pablo Tapay Bautista, Marna Clarke, and Germán Herrera for a conversation about their work and practice. Moderated by Emily Wilson. 

Metaphors of Recent Times: A Dialogue of the Personal, the Political and the Cultural is on view at San Fracnsico City Hall through June 20, 2025

About the Panelists

Pablo Tapay Bautista is a Filipinx-American artist based in Oakland, CA. He holds an MFA in film from Columbia University. His photographs explore the beauty in the mundane and in the unexpected. For him, photography expands our vision of the world and connects us to one another. www.artistpabs.com

Marna Clarke is a photographer living in Petaluma, California. She has studied photography at the Hartford Art School and the International Center for Photography. Her work is in the collections of the Sol LeWitt Collection, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France, and has been featured by publications such as SF Camerawork, PhotoAlliance, Fraction Magazine, Public Broadcasting Service, Huffington Post, Feature Shoot, and Humble Arts Foundation/NY, and was a 2021 Critical Mass Top 50 Finalist. www.marnaclarke.com

Germán Herrera, born in Mexico City and based in San Rafael, CA, has exhibited his work at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA; Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR; Centro de la Imagen in México City, México; Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; in addition to venues in Korea, Germany, and Columbia. Herrera studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, City College of San Francisco, and has participated in Community Healing and Leadership Training in Berkeley, CA. His work is included in collections at Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Green Library at Stanford University, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Germán is the recipient of a 2006 artist residency at the de Young Museum and two Marin Arts Council Photography grants. germanherrera.com

Emily Wilson lives in San Francisco. She has written for many different outlets, including Smithsonian.com, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Women’s Media Center, The Observer, Alta Journal, Photograph Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, California Magazine, UC Santa Cruz Magazine, UCLA Magazine, and SF Weekly. For many years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco. She hosts the short biweekly podcast Art Is Awesome.

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