David Maisel

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.

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.

November 7, 2021 – March 6, 2022. This exhibition explores the evolution of the art of mining, with works from the 1910s through today that depict regional landscapes of enterprise and examine how mining has altered the natural environment on a spectacular scale.

June 18, 2021 – TBA. Unsettled Nature offers visitors the opportunity to explore the unparalleled, ubiquitous and still-growing mark that humanity is making on the world.

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.

April 4 – July 5, 2020. “Civilization: Photography Now” is a major exhibition, featuring the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization.

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.

December 11, 2019 – April 26, 2020. UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.

September 14 – December 14, 2019. In a remote region of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, a classified military site called Dugway Proving Ground remains largely hidden from public view, closed to civilians and rarely seen in the media.

September 13, 2019 – February 2, 2020. The exhibition looks at the phenomenal complexity of life in the twenty-first century and reflects on the ways in which photographers have documented, and held a mirror up, to the world around us.

June 7 – October 5, 2019. Uncovered focuses on contemporary art from the museum’s permanent collection, including selected works in a variety of media by artists from numerous points around the world.

March 27 – September 1, 2019. This exhibition celebrates a major gift of photography, donated over a period of several years, from Berkeley collectors William Goodman and Victoria Belco. Curated by Sandra Phillips.

June 8 – August 4, 2019. In a dynamic exhibition featuring the work of four prestigious photographers, CPA explores some of the environmental issues challenging the planet today.

Through September 2019. Artists dream dreams no one else has dreamt, conjure visions no one else has seen. They look beyond the horizon and see guideposts yet unseen.

March 9 – May 19, 2019. “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” is a major exhibition, featuring the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization.

March 7 – April 21, 2019. Ghostly Traces explores issues of memory, mortality, and transience in contemporary photography.

March 21 – May 4, 2019 Robischon Gallery is pleased to present acclaimed California artist David Maisel’s “Atlas.”

October 18, 2018 – February 17, 2019. “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” is a major exhibition, featuring the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization.

November 9, 2018 – March 2, 2019. “Survols: Aerial Photography of Cities” at CAUE92 Galerie, Nanterre, France

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.

May 19 – August 12, 2018. This exhibition takes an unprecedented look at the productive and dynamic collaboration between photographer and printer, through the lens of the Harvard Art Museums’ Schneider/Erdman Printer’s Proof Collection.

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.

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.

August 25, 2017 – May 15, 2018. American photographer and visual artist David Maisel will discuss Black Maps, an ongoing multi-chaptered series of aerial photographs of environmentally impacted sites exploring the aesthetics and politics of radically human-altered environments.

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.

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.

April 30 – August 7, 2016. Exhibition Curated by Michael Arzt, François Cusset and Camille De Toledo. Featuring works by: Gregory Barsamian, Stefan Brüggemann, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, CHTO, Jeannette Ehlers, Famed, Rumiko Hagiwara , David Maisel, Álvaro Martínez Alonso, Guido van der Werve.

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.

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.”

October 30, 2015 – February 21, 2016. The photographers in “Photography And The Scientific Spirit” make art in which the scientific or photographic process, or both, is as inventive as the images themselves.

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.

June 12 – August 14, 2015. Miller Yezerski Gallery is pleased to exhibit "The Disrupted Landscape" featuring the works of David Maisel, Alex MacLean, Scott Peterman, Holly Lynton and Thomas Jackson.

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.

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.

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.”

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).