“David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime” is a solo exhibit surveying four chapters of Maisel’s larger Black Maps series, according to the Art Museum website.
The photographs are aerial shots of remote landscapes in the American West impacted by industrial waste, mining and urban sprawl, according to the statement.
“Every semester we bring in speakers to speak about the exhibitions we have on display and they are like conversations, they are not really lectures,” said Daniel Linver, coordinator of events, membership and visitor services at the Art Museum. “They’re meant to generate conversation about different pieces in the exhibition. We bring in sometimes professors, professionals or other people in the community to discuss what’s on display.”
This Black Maps presentation also includes a selection of Maisel’s early toned gelatin silver prints of open-pit mines from the 1980s, according to a press release.
“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,” according to the statement.
This semester conversations have been held on other photography collections, woodcut prints and videos.
Next semester’s art exhibitions have not yet been decided on, but will be after the current exhibits move on after Dec. 20, Linver said.
“The next set of Meeting of the Minds conversations will also be decided on at that time,” he said.
This Thursday’s conversation will be led by collections associate Sherri Sorenson. The Art Museum is located in the Center for the Arts and participants should meet in the Art Museum lobby. Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5, according to the statement.
Marielle Dent is a freelance reporter for the Daily Lobo. She can be reached at news@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @Marielle_Dent.
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