David Maisel
Museum Exhibition

Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West
The Autry Museum of American West, Los Angeles, CA
May 18, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Out of Site features eighty works of art, archival materials, and devices ranging from mammoth plate cameras to drones. Works from David Maisel’s Proving Ground series will be exhibited, displaying an enormous gridded aerial view of weapons testing sites. The exhibition centers itself around three technological revolutions to examine how visual technologies, artistic interventions, and the workings of state power have evolved in tandem with the Western landscape: wet-plate photography; the rise of aerial photography and pattern recognition; and the increasing use of long-range photographic technologies to image secretive sites.
 
Out of Site is among more than 60 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty.

 

Learn more at theautry.org and PS.ART