Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 12:00 p.m. 
San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, San Francisco, CA 94102 
Meet in the North Light Court
Free and open to the public

Join exhibition curator Beth Davila Waldman for a walkthrough of Metaphors of Recent Times: A Dialogue of the Personal, the Political and the Cultural. [2] The exhibition features twenty works from PhotoAlliance's INSIGHT/INCITE 20/20 portfolio from 2023, alongside work by twenty-three artists that respond to themes present in the portfolio. The exhibition features a wide range of incisive visual perspectives from artists of diverse identities and background, each responding to the issues of our times. 

About the Curator

Beth Davila Waldman is an independent curator and artist. Initially co-curating exhibitions as one of the founding member of the artist collective SpaceCraft at the CELLspace Art Gallery, she launched her first independent project in 2017 with “Manual Digital” at Space 151 Gallery in San Francisco. In 2021, Waldman organized video public art projects in partnership with SFAI. Waldman’s community-based practice includes developing workshops in partnership with SF Artists Alumni, ArtSpan, RootDivision, Pacific Felt Factory, ArtBias, stART Up Art Fair, I am An Artist and SF Artist Network. 

Resulting from an artist residency at 18th Street Arts Center in 2020, Waldman found invigorating frameworks in Los Angeles for curation initially at Brand Library and Arts Center co-curating with Lawrence Gipe with the exhibition “Mapping The Sublime: Reframing Landscape in the 21st Century”. The next year, Waldman curated an exhibition "Track 16" in the DTLA Bendix Building. Establishing herself on the east side with a studio at KeyStone Art Space, she curated two person show “Maternal Waters” with Oakland based Katie Murken at Micke Tong’s IdolWild Gallery which was inside Keystone Art Space. During the fall of 2024, studio mate Naomi White and Waldman co-curated “Landscapes of Illusions and Possibilities | Maps, Materials & the Lens” with guest artist Alicia Piller featured at The Keystone Gallery. Waldman is a Board Member of San Francisco Bay Area based PhotoAlliance, founded by Linda Connor, and a member of the Los Angeles based Curatorial Collective Monte Vista Projects.