Opening Reception
Friday, May 8, 2026 | 5–7 PM
Two exhibitions open in parallel, each engaging the natural world as a site of memory, transformation, and time.
Once the Ocean Floor brings together works by John Chiara, Linda Connor, David Maisel, and Meghann Riepenhoff—artists who treat landscape as an active force, shaping and recording human presence through process and duration.
For Olle presents new work by Andy Goldsworthy, reflecting on loss and renewal through an intimate body of photographs and sculpture dedicated to Olle Lundberg.
On view May 8 – July 3, 2026
Join us at tomorrow Haines Gallery.
#AndyGoldsworthy #LindaConnor @davidmaiselstudio@meghannriepenhoff@john.chiara_ #ContemporaryPhotography
From the air, @davidmaiselstudio reveals landscapes shaped by time, industry, and environmental change.
These behind-the-scenes moments offer a glimpse into the process behind his striking aerial photographs—works that continue to transform how we see the world below.
Join us for the opening reception of Once the Ocean Floor on May 8 and experience Maisel’s work firsthand.
#DavidMaisel #OnceTheOceanFloor #HainesGallery
In From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez at California Museum of Photography, @davidmaiselstudio and #LindaConnor join an extraordinary group of artists reflecting on landscape, ecology, and the enduring influence of one of America’s most important environmental thinkers.
On view through August 9 at @ucrarts .
Connor and Maisel’s inclusion in this sweeping exhibition offers an early glimpse of what’s to come—both artists will be featured in our upcoming exhibition, Once the Ocean Floor.
Images:
David Maisel, Terminal Mirage 14, 2003
Linda Connor, Lava, Hawaii, 1979
#DavidMaisel #LindaConnor #BarryLopez #HainesGallery
@barry_lopez_foundation
I'm delighted to be debuting my new series Spiraling in the upcoming group show "Once the Ocean Floor" at Haines Gallery, San Francisco. The exhibition opens Friday May 8, with a reception from 5:00-7:00 PM.
“Once the Ocean Floor" includes work by Linda Connor, John Chiara, Meghann Riepenhoff, and me. Working across a range of photographic processes, each of us foreground the natural world not simply as subject, but as an active force—an agent, collaborator, and historian.
"Once the Ocean Floor" is on view May 8 - July 3, 2026
@hainesgallery@meghannriepenhoff #lindaconnor @john.chiara_
“There is a way that I’m trying to move back and forth between the content and the process of abstraction, where the image alone can take you in and you can respond to it as a metaphor.”
🎉Celebrating #DavidMaisel on his birthday—and on Earth Day.
David Maisel’s work offers a profound examination of the environmental and psychological impact of human intervention on the land. Through striking aerial perspectives at once abstract and painterly, his photographs reveal landscapes transformed by industry, extraction, and time.
🔗 Explore more of David Maisel’s work on our website.
On this Earth Day, which is also my birthday, I find myself looking through some large-scaled (28”x28” inch) early toned silver gelatin prints of my work, made by the incomparable @garyschneider7 in the late 80’s/early 90’s. (Honestly, Gary is the only printer I ever fully trusted to work with my b/w aerial images, his prints are spectacular). These early photographs, made when I was in my mid 20’s, describe a word being undone by human activity — cyanide leaching fields from massive open pit mines, tailings ponds at mining sites chock full of toxins, clear cut logging zones, and the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska as it began a climate-change (then called, lets tell it like it is, ‘global warming’) - induced retreat. Now, a few decades on, my own life is much further along, and the changes to our planet have accelerated precipitously.
Hopefully we can use today, Earth Day, to think about what we might do to make this fragile world a better place.
A massive, ten-by-ten foot weapons testing grid image from my series “Proving Ground” at the Nevada Art Museum’s epic, museum-wide exhibition “Into the Time Horizon”, curated by @apsaradq
(With thanks to @ashwinibhat for this installation photo!)
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@nevadaart@hainesgallery #provingground
What a pleasure to learn that my image “Library of Dust 267“ is included the @denverartmuseum exhibition “What We’ve Been Up To: People.” This image is from a series of one hundred photographs of individual copper canisters, each of which contains the cremated remains of a patient from a psychiatric hospital who remained unclaimed by their families upon their deaths. At the time I made these images, there were some 3500 of these canisters in a derelict storage room on the grounds of the Oregon State Hospital. Many of them are covered in heartbreakingly beautiful mineral encrustations which formed as the human ash reacted with the copper canisters and their leaden seams.
“Library of Dust” was published in 2008 by Chronicle Books, in an oversized volume, and it sold out long ago. The story of these canisters continues to unfold, and my upcoming monograph with @radius.books will revisit their continuing story. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have spent so much time with these meaningful objects that are a meditation on death and a kind of mineralogical rebirth. We are the dust of stars.
My gratitude to the donor of this print to the Denver Art Museum, and to the curators of this exhibit for including it in their current show.
#denverartmuseum #libraryofdust @robischongallery@hainesgallery #radius.books #guggfellows
I’m delighted to have my work written about so eloquently by @ianbourland in “Beneath the Surface” in the current issue of @aperturemagazine :
“…photographers have long known that a perverse beauty persists in such instrumental images; even the chemistry of toxicity has its chromatic appeal. This is especially true in the hands of David Maisel, whose interplay of the photographic and painterly has long sought to chart the tailings and holding ponds left in the wake of mining industries. Gold processing, for instance, relies on cyanide and sulfuric acid treatments, and yields contaminated wastewater, laden with heavy metals that pollute the surrounding ecosystem…His “American Mine (Carlin Nevada 1)” depicts such a pond, which seeps across the frame in what Maisel calls a cyanide-infused “lurid green.”
The article is an in-depth (pun intended!) look at several artists whose work will be on view in the upcoming exhibition “Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography,” which opens at the National Gallery of Art @ngadc on May 23rd. Among those discussed: LaToya Ruby Frazier, @willraywilsonstudio , Grant Mudford, as well as Richard Avedon @avedonfoundation , Timothy O’Sullivan, and Margaret Bourke-White.
#aperturemagazine #nationalgalleryofart #mining #blackmaps
My forthcoming monograph, a wide-ranging survey of both photographs and paintings from the last forty years, will be published by @radius.books next Fall. I’m thrilled that the brilliant @geoffmanaugh is one of several remarkable writers contributing to the book. I was delighted to have both Geoff and his wife, the equally brilliant @nicolatwilley , for a studio visit on their recent trip to San Francisco. I’m such a lucky guy— Geoff has been writing about my work for two decades, and he is a captivating and wildly imaginative essayist. Stay tuned for the book’s release in the Fall!
#radiusbooks #geoffmanaugh #monograph
View #DavidMaisel's Lake Project 7 in Houston's @Fotofest Biennial, on view through May 10, 2026.
Abstract, painterly, and disquieting, @davidmaiselstudio 's Lake Project series focuses on the surreal landscape around California's depleted Owens Lake, offering viewers a strange beauty born from environmental degradation.
With works by over 450 US and international artists, Global Visions – #FotoFest at 40 presents key works and themes from its past 20 editions, geography, identity, war, ecology, and social change.
🔗 Link in bio for more.
@chriskallmyer gives a fascinating presentation of the bells he crafted during @eamesinstitute inaugural Ranch Studios Artists Residency at yesterday’s closing event for the “Crafting Curiosity” exhibit held @Petaluma.arts.center . A wonderful exhibit, so many remarkable artists.
