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2. davidmaisel.comDavid Maisel

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   Maisel’s aerial photographs address the aesthetics and environmental impact of radically human-altered landscapes, while his abstract paintings respond to catastrophic climate change events such as wildfire and flood.

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     Maisel’s aerial images of these sites are abstract, graphic,...

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     When wildfires in California ignited in summer of 2020, and...

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     David Maisel’s third solo exhibition at Haines Gallery...

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     Photographs and essay by David Maisel. Essays by William L....

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3. davidmaisel.com › photographsphotographs – David Maisel

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   Maisel’s aerial images of these sites are abstract, graphic, and painterly—offering viewers detailed, open-ended information that operates on a metaphorical level as much as a documentary one.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › David_Maisel_(visual_artist)David Maisel (visual artist) - Wikipedia

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   David Maisel (born 1961) is an American photographer and visual artist whose works explore vestiges and remnants of civilizations both past and present.

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   Apr 26, 2013 · A new book shows how the photographer creates startling images of open-pit mines, evaporation ponds and other sites of environmental degradation

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6. www.houkgallery.com › artists › 40-david-maiselDavid Maisel | Edwynn Houk Gallery

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   Portrait of David Maisel. Photo by Lynn Fontana. David Maisel’s images explore the politics and aesthetics of radically human-altered environments, and how we perceive our place in time via investigations of cultural artifacts from both past and present.

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7. www.hainesgallery.com › artists › 41-david-maiselDavid Maisel | Haines Gallery

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   Maisel’s aerial images of sites around the world initially appear abstract and painterly — offering detailed but open-ended visual information that operates as both documentary and metaphor, seducing viewers with a strange beauty that critics have dubbed “the apocalyptic sublime.”

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   Who is David Maisel?

   • David Maisel is an artist whose work spans photography, painting, and video. He is the recipient of Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, among other awards and honors.

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   What are Maisel's paintings about?

   • Maisel’s aerial photographs address the aesthetics and environmental impact of radically human-altered landscapes, while his abstract paintings respond to catastrophic climate change events such as wildfire and flood. His images are spatially ambiguous and destabilizing, and describe a world wholly remade by human activity.

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   Are Maisel's photographs disorienting?

   • Maisel’s photographs are disorienting; it is a mental exercise just trying to orient oneself within the frame. Without providing solid ground for viewers to stand on, the images inevitably spark more questions than they do answers. Each one is like a Rorschach test, in that the subject is, to some extent, what viewers make it to be.

   The Strange Beauty of David Maisel’s Aerial Photographs

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   Why does David Maisel call his photographs Black Maps?

   • As a nod to the confusing state they place viewers in, Maisel calls his photographs black maps, borrowing from a poem of the same title by contemporary American poet Mark Strand. “Nothing will tell you / where you are,” writes Strand. “Each moment is a place / you’ve never been.” The Mining Project (Butte MT 3), 1989. Credit: David Maisel/INSTITUTE

   The Strange Beauty of David Maisel’s Aerial Photographs

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9. davidmaisel.com › aboutABOUT – David Maisel

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   David Maisel (b. 1961, New York) is an artist working in photography, painting, and video. He is the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Among his chief concerns are the politics and aesthetics of radically human-altered environments, and how we perceive our place in time via investigations of cultural artifacts from ...