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My series History’s Shadow utilizes x-rays of three -dimensional objects as their own source material. Ultimately, I returned to the idea of examining x-rays of paintings, and found a completely different formal vocabulary with which to work. In Shadow Painting, the x-ray considers the canvas, the support structure of the painting, and the ...
Paintings on Paper. When wildfires in California ignited in summer of 2020, and the skies filled with ash and smoke, I began to paint abstracted visions of these conflagrations – at first as works on paper, and then, shifting scale and substrate, works on linen at up to six by twelve feet. With their brushstrokes, pours, erasures, and stains ...
Oct 24, 2019 · A year after its launch, Mythos Studios, the fledgling company led by Marvel Studios founding chairman David Maisel and record executive Scooter Braun, said Friday it is in active development on ...
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 ...
Oblivion. In his book Warped Space, the architectural theorist Anthony Vidler speaks of the “paranoiac space of modernism,” a space which is “mutated into a realm of panic, where all limits and boundaries become blurred…”. These words come to mind when considering the urban aerial images of Los Angeles and its periphery shown in Oblivion.
Desolation Desert. In his latest photographic series, Desolation Desert, David Maisel brings his focus to the massive mining operations in the vast territory of Chile’s Atacama Desert. The highest and driest desert on the planet, this sensitive eco-region of the Atacama is being transformed at an unparalleled pace and scale by extractive ...
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 ...
