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“David Maisel: Un/Earthed” at Haines Gallery

Haines Gallery proudly presents David Maisel: Un/Earthed, our eighth solo exhibition with the Bay Area artist. For over thirty years, Maisel has created powerful photographs of sites transformed by human intervention. At once mesmerizing and disquieting, his thoughtfully composed aerial images consider the aesthetics, politics, and environmental impact of these radically altered landscapes.
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“From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez” at the Sheldon Museum of Art

January 27 - May 26, 2023. This exhibition celebrates the unprecedented gift of more than ninety works donated by fifty American photographers to honor the writer Barry Lopez, who died in 2020 at age seventy-five. For more than five decades, Lopez wrote about the landscape in lyrical prose that offered a vivid and passionate account of humankind’s relationship with the natural world.
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“45 + Anniversary Exhibition Series: Part I” at the Robischon Gallery

November 17, 2022 – January 28, 2023. On the auspicious occasion marking over forty-five years as a contemporary art venue in Colorado, Robischon Gallery is pleased to present “45 +,” an anniversary exhibition series beginning with “PART I” in November of 2022, followed by “PART II,” opening in February of 2023.  The distinctive tandem presentations offer a unique glimpse into the broader spectrum of numerous noteworthy Robischon Gallery exhibitions. While touching upon a specific selection of the gallery’s far-reaching dialogues within art, the series symbolically features new and memorable archived artworks by several gallery artists in celebration of all of the exemplary artists the gallery has presented over its many decades-long presence in Colorado. “PART I” highlights the following twenty-nine regional, national, and internationally recognized artists in a blend of tangential or thematic modes of cross-cultural/political histories, symbiotic human relationships with Nature in form or narrative, as well as an exaltation of Nature’s beauty and issues of environmentalism.
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“David Maisel: The Expanded Field” at Edwynn Houk Gallery

October 14 – November 20, 2021. Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce David Maisel’s inaugural exhibition, "The Expanded Field". Over the course of the past three decades, Maisel has concentrated his artist practice on creating large scale aerial photographs depicting sites of environmental transformation throughout the American West, including open pit mining, water reclamation, urban sprawl, and zones of desertification. His most recent series, "Desolation Desert", has taken him to the copper and lithium mines of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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“Apocalyptic / Sublime” at Haines Gallery

March, 2021. Haines Gallery Proudly presents "Apocalyptic / Sublime", an exhibition of works by David Maisel. In his carefully constructed, reality-based photographs, David Maisel stages careful investigations that use unexpected perspectives to make the invisible visible — in landscapes transformed by industrialization or urbanization, or in our artifacts and memories of the past.
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“Desolation Desert” at Haines Gallery

Spring 2020. Haines Gallery proudly presents "Desolation Desert", an exhibition of recent photographs by David Maisel that focuses on Chile’s vast Atacama Desert. "Desolation Desert" was created with the support of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and is Maisel’s eighth solo exhibition at Haines Gallery.
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“Proving Ground” at Nevada Art Museum

October 19, 2019 – January 12, 2020. Photographer David Maisel’s archive of the Proving Ground project lends rare insight into his encounter with one of the most secretive of American military zones. The archive reveals the depth of his photographic and time-based media investigation of Dugway Proving Ground, a classified site covering nearly 800,000 acres in a remote region of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert.
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“A Cure for Everything” at Haines Gallery

January 5 – March 2, 2019. Haines Gallery is pleased to present A Cure for Everything, a group exhibition bringing together works by nine artists working in photography, print, and video. Employing alternative or experimental techniques, each of the artists in the show push the boundaries and possibilities of how we picture the landscape.
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“New Territory: Landscape Photography Today” at the Denver Art Museum

June 24 – September 26, 2018. New Territory: Landscape Photography Today is a survey of contemporary landscape photography from around the world. The exhibition of more than 80 photographs will gauge how artists stretch the boundaries of traditional landscape photography to reflect the environmental attitudes, perceptions, and values of our time.
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“Proving Ground” at Haines Gallery

January 4 – February 24, 2018. Haines Gallery is pleased to present Proving Ground, a solo exhibition of new work by photographer David Maisel (b. 1961, New York, NY; lives and works in San Francisco, CA). Best known for his striking aerial photographs that chronicle environments impacted by human intervention, here Maisel debuts a new body of work, fifteen years in the making, investigating the landscape and architecture of Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military site in a remote region of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert.
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“Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment” at Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT

September 15 – December 10, 2017. The works on view in Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment come primarily from the Museum’s rich holdings of historic and contemporary photography. Among the wide range of artists represented are historic figures Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as many contemporaries. Among these Richard Misrach, David Maisel, and James Balog are well known for their concerned image-making.
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“California: The Art of Water” at The Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

July 13 – November 28, 2016. This exhibition is devoted to artistic portrayals of California’s most precious—and currently scarce—resource. It presents more than 70 works by eminent artists including Ansel Adams, Albert Bierstadt, David Hockney, David Maisel, Richard Misrach, and Carleton Watkins, and features images from a variety of regions around the state, during the Gold Rush to the present.
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“ARENA,” Noorderlicht Photofestival 2016 at Museum Belvédère, Oranjewoud, The Netherlands

May 22 – July 3, 2016. We live in a time when our global culture has subordinated nature. It has become almost impossible to experience unspoilt land, no matter how far we direct our gaze. What remains once humanity and its thirst for action have left the stage, in search of ever greener pastures? With the first part of the project series titled ARENA, Noorderlicht casts a forensic look at the traces left behind in the landscape.
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“Reset Modernity” at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

April 16 – August 21, 2016.. Exhibition curated by Bruno Latour, Martin Guinard-Terrin, Donato Ricci, Christophe Leclercq. Featuring works by: Tacita Dean, Albrecht Dürer, Charles & Ray Eames, Pierre Huyghe, David Maisel, John Martin, Sophie Ristelhueber, Simon Starling, Thomas Struth, Sarah Sze, Thomas Thwaites, The Unknown Field Division, Jeff Wall.
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“The Fall” at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

January 7 – March 12, 2016. Haines Gallery proudly presents "The Fall", a series of recent color photographs by California–based artist David Maisel. For nearly three decades, Maisel has created rigorous, captivating aerial photographs of landscapes affected by industry, agriculture, urban sprawl, and other forms of human intervention. Despite the political and environmental underpinnings of these images, Maisel’s work refuses didactic interpretation, evoking instead an experience that the artist has called the “apocalyptic sublime.”
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“David Maisel- Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime” at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL

August 28 – November 14, 2015. This solo exhibition leads the viewer on a hallucinatory journey through landscapes in the American West that have been transformed by the physical and environmental effects of industry. It features twenty-eight large-scale pigment prints from The Lake Project, Oblivion, The Mining Project, American Mine, and Terminal Mirage.
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“Points of View” at the Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME

June 12 – October 17, 2015. The Bates College Museum of Art will present "Points of View", an exhibition of contemporary photography featuring new and recent works by Jay Gould, Gary Green, David Maisel, and Shoshannah White. Viewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of scale, each artist explores a different aspect of the boundaries and interrelationships between human activity and the natural world.
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“The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

May 3 – September 13, 2015. "The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs" is a group exhibition exploring the complexity of the medium's relationship to time, memory, and history. Seventy-six works by artists including David Maisel, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Moyra Davey, Carrie Mae Weems, Chris McCaw, and more will be presented at the Gallery for the first time in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art’s photography program.
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“The Fall” at Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

March 26 - May 3, 2015. Mark Moore Gallery is proud to present "The Fall" a recent series of large-scale color photographs by California–based artist David Maisel. For over two decades, Maisel has rigorously photographed aerial perspectives of landscapes affected by industry, agriculture, urban sprawl and other forms of human intervention. Despite the political underpinnings of these images, Maisel’s work refuses didactic interpretation, arriving instead at a surreal and abstracted intersection of beauty, mystery, and horror that the artist has referred to as the “apocalyptic sublime.”
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“Goethe’s Chamber” at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

January 8 - February 28, 2015. "Goethe’s Chamber" is a group exhibition that invites visitors to reconsider vision as an embodied, subjective and durational experience, continuously augmented by emergent technologies and theorized from various vantages throughout the ages. Located at the intersection of science and fiction, the exhibition’s title is an allusion to polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s pioneering work The Theory of Colour (1810).
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“David Maisel: Black Maps” exhibition at the University of New Mexico Art Museum

September 13 - December 20, 2014. “David Maisel – Black Maps” is a solo exhibition surveying four chapters of Maisel’s larger ongoing series titled Black Maps. Composed of large-scale photographs, this exhibition leads the viewer on a hallucinatory journey through landscapes in the American West that have been transformed through the physical and environmental effects of industrial-scale water diversion projects, open-pit mineral extraction, and urban sprawl.
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“Imagining Deep Time” at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

August 28 , 2014 – January 15, 2015. The concept of deep time was introduced in the 18th century, but it wasn't until the 1980s that American writer John McPhee coined the term "deep time" in his book Basin and Range. This exhibition, which contains 18 works by 15 artists, looks at the human implications of deep time through the lens of artists who bring together rational and intuitive thinking.
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“David Maisel: History’s Shadow” at Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY

April 3 – May 10, 2014 Yancey Richardson is pleased to present Historyʼs Shadow, the first exhibition at the gallery by American artist David Maisel. For over twenty-five years, Maiselʼs photographic work has been wide-ranging in scope, and yet deeply focused on what he describes as a “long-term investigation into the aesthetics of entropy, and the dual processes of memory and excavation.” Historyʼs Shadow utilizES x-rays as source material to explore the intersection of scientific research and visual art. The exhibition title comes from a project of the same name, inspired by the artistʼs residency at the Getty Research Institute, during which time he re-photographed x-rays of sculptural antiquities culled from the museum’s conservation archives.
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“ToledoContemporánea,” Toledo, Spain

Ivorypress presents the photographic project ToledoContemporánea —curated by Elena Ochoa Foster with the Ivorypress team—which will be part of the exhibition program celebrating the fourth centennial of El Greco. The project, in collaboration with the Fundación El Greco 2014, offers a contemporary view of the city of Toledo: of its past, present and future realities. Twelve photographers have created photographic series about the Spanish city: José Manuel Ballester, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthieu Gafsou, Dionisio González, Rinko Kawauchi, Marcos López, David Maisel, Abelardo Morell, Vik Muniz, Shirin Neshat, Flore-äel Surun and Massimo Vitali, as well as the special collaboration of Michal Rovner and composer and theater maker Heiner Goebbels.
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“History Recast: Photography and Roman Sculpture in Contemporary Art” at the American Academy in Rome

January - March, 2014. "History Recast" offers a close examination of the relationship between photography and Roman sculpture in contemporary art. Revisiting the claim made by French critic André Malraux in 1947 that the history of art—in particular sculpture—had become “the history of that which can be photographed,” this exhibition explores how artists today no longer use the camera simply to document sculpture. Instead, they embrace photography to create new visions of iconic objects that call into question how we view our heritage, our systems of knowledge, and ourselves.
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“Surveying the Terrain,” Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC

October 4, 2013 – January 13, 2014. Surveying the Terrain at the Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina explores how contemporary artists are using maps, mapping technologies, cartography, surveying, science and politics to create artworks. The exhibition focuses on the how the artists’ relationships to the Earth, the art they create, and our relationships to each other are condensed, extended, distorted and interpreted by beauty, politics, environmental degradation, poverty, surveillance, privacy and censorship. Artists include David Maisel, Mishka Henner, Matthew Jensen, Alfredo Jaar, Maya Lin, Trevor Paglen, Doug Rickard, and others.
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“David Maisel / Black Maps – American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime.” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ

June 1 – September 1, 2013. Composed of large-scale aerial photographs, this exhibition leads the viewer on a hallucinatory journey through sites in the American West that have been transformed through the physical and environmental effects of industrial-scale water diversion projects, open-pit mineral extraction, and urban sprawl. Maisel’s powerful images exist as aesthetic and political archives documenting the impact of both human consumption and inhabitation.
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“Moving – Norman Foster on Art” at the Carré d’Art, France

May 3 – September 15, 2013 "Moving – Norman Foster at the Carré d’Art" – Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art To mark twenty years since the completion of the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, Norman Foster has been invited to curate a special exhibition to celebrate this anniversary. The title of the exhibition is ‘Moving’ and it brings together 138 works by 66 artists from 14 countries, covering almost a 200 year period from Turner’s early nineteenth-century watercolours to contemporary video pieces. For more information, please visit the Foster and Partners website.

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“David Maisel / Black Maps – American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime.” CU Art Museum, CO

DAVID MAISEL / BLACK MAPS: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime. Premiering at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder: February 9 – May 11, 2013. Composed of large-scale aerial photographs, this exhibition leads the viewer on a hallucinatory journey through sites in the American West that have been transformed through the physical and environmental effects of industrial-scale water diversion projects, open-pit mineral extraction, and urban sprawl. Maisel’s powerful images exist as aesthetic and political archives documenting the impact of both human consumption and inhabitation.
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“Subverted” at the Ivorypress Gallery, Spain

Subverted is a group exhibition with artworks by Edward Burtynsky (Ontario, Canada, 1955), David Maisel (New York, USA, 1961), Nuno Ramos (São Paulo, Brasil, 1960) and Carlo Valsecchi (Brescia, Itay, 1965). The show throws a spotlight on the rapport between man and Nature, a relationship whose dynamic has been radically altered over the last few decades.
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“David Maisel – Shadows and Dust,” California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA

August 31, 2010 – January 1, 2011. The exhibition of more than 100 photographs comprising two floors of the museum will feature the first museum showing of David Maisel’s History's Shadow on the first floor, and an extensive selection from his Library of Dust series on the second floor. Maisel’s work focuses on the aesthetics of disintegration, and the dual processes of memory and excavation. Both History’s Shadow and Library of Dust tumble through a rupture in the seam of the world into an altered reality, recognizing remarkable subjects in places where no one had ever thought to look.
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“David Maisel: The Mining Project” at Haines Gallery

For his fifth exhibition with Haines Gallery, Maisel presents "Mining" – a selection of photographs from The Mining Project and American Mine, series never before seen at the gallery. These works consider the relationship between nature and humanity, and encompass both stark documentary and tragic metaphor. Mining coincides with the release of Maisel’s new monograph by Steidl, Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, the first in-depth survey of the artist’s aerial projects.
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“David Maisel – Library of Dust” at Haines Gallery

September 4 – October 4, 2008. David Maisel’s third solo exhibition at Haines Gallery comprises Library of Dust, a series of large-scale photographs of individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of a patient from an Oregon state psychiatric hospital. The canisters have transformed over time and are now blooming with secondary minerals, causing each to become highly differentiated.
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“Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible” YBCA

"Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible" is a group exhibition of hi-tech installations, photography, video and conceptual projects that uncover the unexpected, the invisible and the hidden. Delving into the obscure and often sinister, the works allow us to experience what we only suspect exists. David Maisel presents photographs from his recent Library of Dust series, depicting deteriorating metal canisters containing the unclaimed ashes of asylum patients.
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