David Maisel’s Terminal Mirage
David Maisel was born in New York City in 1961. He received his BA from Princeton University, and his MFA from California College of the Arts, in addition to study at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has been the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and will be a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in Fall 2007. Maisel lives and works in the San Francisco area, where he has been based since 1993.
Maisel’s practice has focused primarily on environmentally impacted sites, in a multi-chaptered series called "Black Maps". His large-scaled photographs show the physical impact on the land from industrial efforts such as mining, logging, water reclamation, and military testing. Because these sites are often remote and inaccessible, Maisel frequently works from an aerial perspective, thereby permitting images and photographic evidence that would be otherwise unattainable.
Maisel’s photographs, multi-media projects, and public installations have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many permanent collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. His work has been the subject of two monographs: The Lake Project (Nazraeli Press, 2004), and Oblivion (Nazraeli Press, 2006). A third monograph, Library of Dust, will be published by Chronicle Books in Fall 2008.
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