Festival
MoP Denver 2013
CU Art Museum
David Maisel, American (b. 1961), American Mine (Carlin NV 2), 2007. Pigment print, 2011, 48 x 48 inches, A/P. Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
David Maisel, American (b. 1961), The Mining Project (Clifton AZ 7), 1989. Pigment print, 2012, 48 x 48 inches, A/P. Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
David Maisel, American (b. 1961), The Lake Project 3, 2001. Pigment print, 2012, 48 x 48 inches, A/P. Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
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. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
David Maisel, American (b. 1961). The Lake Project 17, 2002. Pigment print, 2012, 48 x 48 inches, A/P, Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
David Maisel, American (b. 1961), Oblivion 15N, 2004. Pigment print, 2012, 40 x 40 inches, A/P. Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
David Maisel, American (b. 1961), Terminal Mirage 2, 2003. Pigment print, 2012, 48 x 48 inches, A/P. Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
David Maisel, American (b. 1961), Terminal Mirage 5, 2003. Pigment print, 2012, 48 x 48 inches, A/P. Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Judy Dater, American (b. 1941), Twinka, 1970, gelatin silver print, 12 ¾ x 10 inches. Purchase from the Artist, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 86.1760 Photo: CU Art Museum © Judy Dater 1970. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Showman and Green, American, Untitled [still life with two baskets of flowers], c. 1865-1900, albumen print, cabinet card, 6 ¾ x 4 inches. Purchase with The Carnegie Fund, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 79.808.04. Photo: CU Art Museum. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Kate Breakey, Australian (b.1957), Northern Cardinal 1, 1995-2009, from the series “Small Deaths”. Gelatin silver print, hand colored with oils and pencil, A/P, 36 x 36 ½ inches. Gift of Ms. Kate Breakey, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 2009.06. Photo: Jeff Wells / CU Art Museum © Kate Breakey. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Philippe Halsman, American (1906-1979), Marilyn Entering Closet, 1952, printed 1981 from the portfolio “Halsman/Marilyn”, gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches. Gift of the Marjorie Neikrug Gallery, New York, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 87.03.01.05. Photo: CU Art Museum © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos, NY From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
E. J. (Ernest James) Bellocq, American (1873-1949), Nude on Wicker Couch, c. 1911-13 from the series “Storyville Portraits”, gelatin silver print on gold-toned printing-out paper, 8 x 10 inches. Gift of Mr. Rick Koopman, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 97.18. Photo: CU Art Museum. Image by E.J. Bellocq © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Laura Shill, American (b. 1980), Untitled Performance #6 (Robin on the Moon), 2011 tintype (collodion and silver nitrate on brushed aluminum), 8 x 10 inches. Gift of Laura Shill, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 2012.07.01. Image courtesy the artist © Laura Shill. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Sama Alshaibi, American (b. Iraq 1973), Headdress of the Disinherited, 2004, digital print edition 3/10, 29 x 22 ¾ inches. Gift of Sama Alshaibi, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 2005.05. Photo: CU Art Museum © Sama Alshaibi. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Unidentified artist, American, Untitled [portrait of young girl in hat and dark shawl], c. 1905-1915, gelatin silver print, 12 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. Gift of John D. Hoag, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 78.747. Photo: CU Art Museum. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Unidentified artist, Japanese, Untitled [portrait of a Japanese girl], c. 1850-1900 hand-colored albumen print, 5 ¾ x 3 ½ inches. Purchase, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 79.804.01. Photo: CU Art Museum. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
Linda Connor, American (b. 1944), Banares, 1979, gelatin silver print, gold toned, 8 x 10 inches. Purchase from the Denver Sale in support of the Photographer’s Lecture Series, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 80.1463. Photo: CU Art Museum © Linda Connor. From the exhibition Primal Seen: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
David Maisel, American (b. 1961), American Mine (Carlin NV 2), 2007. Pigment print, 2011, 48 x 48 inches, A/P. Image courtesy of the artist © David Maisel. From the exhibition David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime at the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder
. David Maisel / Black Maps : American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime
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 David 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.
EXHIBITION
David Maisel / Black Maps
February 9 – May 11, 2013
CU Art Museum
University of Colorado at Boulder
1085 18th St., Boulder
Denver, CO 80309
USA
. Primal Seen : Selections from the CU Art Museum's Collection of Photography from the 19th Century to the Present.
The exhibition features selections from the museum’s collection of over 1300 photographs highlighting themes including remembrance and memory, the gaze and the female body, and 19th century tropes as they are referenced in the works of contemporary artists. Artists featured in the exhibition include Sama Alshaibi, E.J. Bellocq, Michael Bishop, Kate Breakey, Albert Chong, Linda Connor, Judy Dater, Jeanne Dunning, Ralph Gibson, Judith Golden, Philippe Halsman, Robert Heinecken, Mary Ellen Mark, Esther Parada, Laura Shill, Lou Stoumen, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, and George Woodman. The exhibition also includes 19th century hand-colored photographs, cartes-de-visite, stereoscopic albumen prints, ambrotypes, and daguerreotypes.
EXHIBITION
Primal Seen
Through June 22, 2013
CU Art Museum
University of Colorado at Boulder
1085 18th St., Boulder
Denver, CO 80309
USA
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