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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.
- PHOTOGRAPHS
Proving Ground is an investigation through photographs and...
- PAINTINGS
When wildfires in California ignited in summer of 2020, and...
- EXHIBITIONS
“David Maisel – Shadows and Dust,” California Museum of...
- PUBLICATIONS
Photographs and essay by David Maisel. Essays by William L....
- PRESS
“The Abstract Aerial Landscape Photography of David Maisel.”...
- INFO
David Maisel (b. 1961, New York) is an artist whose work...
- 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...
- PHOTOGRAPHS
- Major Projects
- Awards, Honors, Symposia
- Solo and Group Exhibitions
- Monograph Publications
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...
Apr 26, 2013 · SCIENCE. The Strange Beauty of David Maisel’s Aerial Photographs. A new book shows how the photographer creates startling images of open-pit mines, evaporation ponds and other sites of...
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David Maisel, a visual artist whose work has explored hidden landscapes, archives, and histories of the American west for more than three decades, was named a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow for Photography.
May 5, 2017 · Photographer David Maisel’s current and eerily timely body of work, titled Proving Ground, depicts, from the air, parts of an 800,000-acre chemical weapons testing facility in Utah’s Great...
Feb 14, 2024 · History’s Shadow. David Maisel re-photographed x-rays of art objects from antiquity. Since x-rays map both the inner and outer surfaces of a subject, these mysterious images offer yet another dimension with which to appreciate ancient objects and the artists who made them — hinting at the continuous presence... Photographs and text by David Maisel.
