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| DAVID MAISEL / BLACK MAPS: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime |
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Event Description
DAVID MAISEL / BLACK MAPS is a solo show surveying four chapters of
Maisel’s larger ongoing series titled Black Maps. Composed of
large-scale photographs, this exhibition leads the viewer on a
hallucinatory journey through landscapes in the American West that have
been transformed through the physical and environmental effects of
industrial-scale water diversion projects, open-pit mineral extraction,
and urban sprawl. Maisel’s powerful aerial photographs exist as
aesthetic and political archives documenting the impact of both human
consumption and inhabitation. More than mere records, these photographs
evoke sublime beauty and apocalyptic destruction, positioning Maisel at
the forefront of a complex new approach to framing and interpreting
issues of contemporary landscape and culture. Maisel’s mineral-based,
painterly color prints transform poisonous human-altered landscapes into
subjects and objects of extreme beauty while simultaneously unveiling
the magnitude of hidden ecological devastation that punctuates the vast
interior of the American West, a space that is often represented in the
visual, cinematic, and literary arts as endless and eternal.
Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum and Helmut
Müller-Sievers, Director, Center for the Humanities and the Arts, Eaton
Professor of Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder
This exhibition is generously supported in part by the HBB Foundation,
the CU Art Museum benefactors and members, the CU Boulder Student Arts
and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) fees, and by the Center of the American
West. Additional support for the related artist/curatorial lecture and
discussion was generously provided by the Center for Humanities and the
Arts, University of Colorado Boulder and The Roser Visiting Artist
Grant.
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This event is open to
Everyone |
Ticket information:
Free and Open to the Public
David Maisel, American (b. 1961)
The Lake Project 15, 2002
pigment print, 2012
48 x 48 inches
A/P
Image courtesy of the artist
© David Maisel |
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