Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Fort Barry
415.331.2787
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David Maisel, Image from Library of Dust, Courtesy the artist
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Thursday May 22, 2008 (7:30pm)
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Headlands' current artists-in-residence are disparate interpreters of the American Gothic aesthetic. Under his various monikers, troubadour Will Oldham uses American vernacular music — blues, country, rock — as a loose platform for cryptic songs of quiet desperation and mad love. Photographer David Maisel studies landscapes of a different sort, focusing on the perverse beauty in industrially wrought enviornmental devastation. His often-aerial camera captures fields, lakes, and estuaries that have been turned into melted ice-cream swirls of toxicity. Tonight's talk offers a chance to speak with both Oldham and Maisel, and to touch on the heart of darkness that animates their work.
