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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. Maisel’s aerial ...
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Proving Ground is an investigation through photographs and...
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When wildfires in California ignited in summer of 2020, and...
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March 26 - May 3, 2015. Mark Moore Gallery is proud to...
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Photographs and essay by David Maisel. Essays by William L....
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The New Yorker: "David Maisel's Geometric Geographies."...
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BIO. David Maisel (b. 1961, New York) is an artist whose...
- Desolation Desert
Maisel began Desolation Desert in 2018 with the support of a...
- The Lake Project
The Lake Project comprises images from Owens Lake, the site...
- The Fall
Maisel was invited to Spain in 2013 as part of the...
- History’s Shadow
History’s Shadow has as its source material x-rays of art...
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For over thirty years, Maisel has produced aerial photographs of compromised landscapes in a multi-chaptered series titled Black Maps, revealing the physical impact of activities such as mining, logging, urban sprawl, and military testing. Rather than create literal documents, the artist has exploited the slippage between the evidentiary and aesthe...
Maisel is the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts; a 2011 Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation; a 2008 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2007 Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research Institute; a 1990 Individual Artists Grant from the National Endowment for the Art...
Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime was a solo exhibition of Maisel’s landscape work that traveled from 2013-2015; it originated at the CU Boulder Art Museum and traveled to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of New Mexico Art Museum, among other venues. Maisel’s work has been exhibited international...
Maisel’s photographs have been the subject of seven monographs: Proving Ground (Radius, 2020); Mount St Helens: Afterlife (Ivorypress, 2017); Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime (Steidl, 2013); History’s Shadow (Nazraeli, 2011); Library of Dust (Chronicle, 2008); Cascade Effect (Nazraeli, 2008); Oblivion (Nazraeli, 2006); and...
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. His work focuses on power and the production of space by examining landscapes and objects that are off-limits ...
David Maisel (born 1961) [1] [2] is an American photographer and visual artist whose works explore vestiges and remnants of civilizations both past and present. His work has been the subject of five major monographs, published by Nazraeli Press, Chronicle Books, and Steidl . Maisel was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts in ...
- Bachelor of Arts, Master of Fine Arts
- American
- Photography and Visual Art
Artists J. Henry Fair, David Maisel, Alison Moritsugu, Richard Parrish, Jill Pelto, will exhibit in The Tipping Point. David Maisel’s images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. Maisel’s images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics and politics of open pit ...
David Maisel is a visual artist working in photography, painting and video. Maisel was named a Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts in 2018. He was a Scholar in Residence at the Getty Research ...
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