David Maisel

“David Maisel at the Bolinas Museum.” Review; April 2003. Van Proyen, Mark. "We all know what it means to "put things into perspective" by gaining "an overview of the big picture." It almost goes without saying that the confusions of our current sociopolitical situation renew our search for the clear vista provided by high Olympian ground. Almost from the moment of its invention, photography has been implicated in this quest."

“David Maisel at the Bolinas Museum.” Review; April, 2003. Keats, Jonathon. "Passing through southern California several years ago, photographer David Maisel noticed that the Owens Lake bed was a stunning shade of pink. Having already documented the remains of mines in places ranging from Butte Montana to Bisbee, Arizona, Maisel recognized something peculiar about the beauty."

“The Abstract Aerial Landscape Photography of David Maisel.” April/May, 2003. Olson, Marisa. "There is something very particular about the beauty of the Dutch still life paintings. The objects in them, each plucked from nature and arranged by human hands, rest at a hyperreal state of perfection, yet seem to teeter gluttonously on the verge of decay. In this sense, David Maisel's photos have much in common with the Flemish spreads that occupy so many of our museum walls."

“Abstraction in Photography.” Review of group exhibit. March 7, 2003. Glueck, Grace. "David Maisel's stunning "Butte, Montana No.7," an aerial photograph of a mountainous terrain, shows blobs of hot color and deep tracklesss white dispersed among peaks, valleys and ridges as curved by nature as those of a man-made structure."