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David Maisel. Fellow: Awarded 2018. Field of Study: Photography. Competition: US & Canada. David Maisel is a visual artist working in photography and video whose work has explored hidden landscapes, archives, and histories of the American west for more than three decades. Proving Ground, his most current series, examines the site of Dugway ...
The Lake Project comprises images from Owens Lake, the site of a formerly 200 square-mile lake in California on the eastern side of the Sierra Mountains. Beginning in 1913, the Owens River was diverted into the Owens Valley Aqueduct, to bring water to the fledgling desert city of Los Angeles. By 1926, the lake had been depleted, exposing vast ...
Terminal Mirage. Inspired by Robert Smithson’s writings on the Great Salt Lake, Maisel embarked upon an aerial survey of this surreal, apocalyptic, and strangely beautiful region. Terminal Mirage examines the periphery of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, including zones of mineral evaporation ponds and macabre industrial pollution covering some ...
Natural resource extraction and its consequences are themes central to Maisel’s photographic practice for nearly thirty years. Through aerial photography, the interlinked series Black Maps , The Mining Project, and American Mine explore sites across the United States that have been radically and irretrievably transformed by open pit mining.
Jun 5, 2023 · One late-summer weekend in 2003, a talent-agency executive named David Maisel was in his sweatpants, in the loft of his L.A. apartment. He had spent two years at the Endeavor agency, and he was ...
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 ...
Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died at the hospital between 1883 (the year the facility opened, when it was called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) and the 1970’s; their bodies have remained unclaimed by their families. The ...
