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, Hands On Igor’s 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 Inverness, 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 is a radio and print reporter in San Francisco. She has written stories for dozens of media outlets including NPR, Latino USA, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, California Teacher, Oakland Magazine, the Daily Beast, and Truthdig. She also teaches adults working towards high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.
