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"David Maisel: Shadow and Dust"
David Maisel: Shadow and Dust will be on view at the California Museum of Photography from August 31, 2010 until January 1, 2011. The exhibition of more than 100 photographs comprising two floors of the museum will feature the first museum showing of Maisel's "History's Shadow" on the first floor, and an extensive selection from his "Library of Dust" on the second floor. A reception will be held during the opening celebration of the new Culver Center for the Arts from Thursday October 7 through Saturday October 9. On Saturday October 9, Maisel will have a public conversation with the exhibiton's curator, Colin Westerbeck, at 2:30 PM, in the museum's Ocularium.

 The Center for Photography at Woodstock:
Workshop: "David Maisel and Alan Rapp: The Photographer/Editor Collaboration: Publishing a Photographic Book."  September 25-26, 2010.
Public Lecture: "David Maisel: Recent Projects." Saturday, September 25, 2010, 8:00 PM.

SF Camerawork's Fine Print Program
New limited edition print from Maisel's "American Mine" available as part of this series.

"Library of Dust" at Von Lintel Gallery, reviewed by The New Yorker, February 15, 2010:
"The subjects of Maisel’s enormous new color photographs appear to be corroded tin cans, shot against pitch-black backdrops and lit like precious objects. They are, in fact, copper cannisters containing the cremated remains of patients from an Oregon mental hospital; stored for years in a vault that flooded repeatedly, they’ve been transformed into strangely alluring pieces of found sculpture. The corrosion manifests itself as a multicolored crust that resembles slathered paint, but one can recalls views of the earth from outer space: swirls of turquoise and green under billowy white clouds."

Library of Dust monograph in The New York Times, November 28, 2008:
"Library of Dust, from the photographer David Maisel, may well be this year's most haunting book of images. It is a collection of photographs of copper canisters, each containing the unclaimed remains of a patient from a psychiatric hospital in Oregon (the same one used for filming "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"). Rivulets of chemical corrosion, almost oceanic in their intense coloring, run down the sides. Mr. Maisel's book is a fevered meditation on memory, loss, and the uncanny monuments we sometimes recover about what has gone before."

 

Recent Publications

Library of Dust, monograph published by Chronicle Books, Fall 2008. 108 pp., casebound. Essays by Geoff Manaugh, Michael Roth, Terry Toedtemeier

The BLDG Book, by Geoff Manaugh. Published by Chronicle Books.

The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, by Katharine Harmon. Published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Water  published by teNeues, in conjuction with traveling exhibition of Prix Pictet

Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Casebound exhibition catalogue. Published by Tucson Museum of Art.

Getty Research Journal Published by the Getty Research Institute, Number 1, 2009. "Voluptuousness Unease: David Maisel's Library of Dust" by Karen Lang

Prefix Photo Published by the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Issue 19, May 2009. Portfolio of "Library of Dust"

Kerb Journal of Landscape Architecture Published by the School of Architecture and Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Volume 17, 2008-2009. "Is Landscape Architecture Dead? Crisis in Landscape Representation" by Cesar Torres Bustamante

X-TRA "David Maisel's Library of Dust", Fall 2008. Article by Karen Lang

 

Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions

Exit Art
Ecoaesthetic: The Tragedy of Beauty
curated by Jeanette Ingberman, Papo Colo, Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati
June 18- August 28, 2010

Jen Bekman Gallery
Land Use Survey
June 30 – August 15, 2010
6 Spring Street
New York, NY

California Museum of Photography
David Maisel: Shadows and Dust 
August 31, 2010 – January 1, 2011
Solo exhibition curated by Colin Westerbeck

Breda International Photography Festival
The Lake Project
September – October 2010
Maisel exhibits large scaled images from this series in a public outdoor environment