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Eloy, Arizona, USA

2005 / 2009 AMA09
Eloy, Arizona, USA
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39.4 x 59.1
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depth 0.08" glossy, frameless, 39.4 x 59.1" (External dimensions) On premium paper (glossy) not mounted or framed. Shipped rolled.
depth 0.08" glossy, frameless, 39.4 x 59.1" (External dimensions)
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The Flying Eye

Alex S. MacLean’s (*1947) pictures have something healing about them. They bring to order to what seems at ground level chaotic. The photographer has seen nearly all of the US and Europe from above and shows us the structures of Western lifestyle, told as an overview of growth and decay, of planting and harvesting, of our need to be motorized and on the move and how such a course ends. The abstract concept of spatial order makes sense with the advantage of a bird’s-eye view. MacLean reveals the difference between the natural and the constructed aspects of the environment and most recently took photos of aspects of climate change, taking us with each image to a place we think we know but have never seen like this.

MacLean is a trained architect whose excellent sense of space also qualifies him beyond that field, particularly in landscape architecture. Over the last years he has published numerous collections of photos; his works have been shown across the US, including at the AIPAD Show Miami, as well as extensively at the Arles photo festival. He keeps a studio in Cambridge and lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
VITA
1969Harvard College, B.A.
1973Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Master in Architecture
1975Commercial Pilot License
Studion in Cambridge
lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
Exhibitions
2007American Artifacts, Gallery Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Wellesley College, Horticulture Visitor Center, Wellesley, MA, USA
2006Italian and French Landscapes, Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, MA, USA
2005Airlines, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
2003Patterns on the Land, Gallery Katz, Boston, MA, USA
Kansas City Design Center: Towards the Horizon, Commerce Trust Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, MA, USA
Americaland, BETC Euro RSCG with the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Paris, France
2002Play in America Seen from the Sky, Les Rencontres d’Arles 33rd Annual International Photo Festival, Arles, France
Urbanscapes, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Perspectives, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston, MA, USA
2001American Institute of Architects (local chapter), Dallas, TX, USA
2000From Above: Photographs of Houston, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
1997Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1994Aerial Landscapes, Seaside Institute, Seaside, FL, USA
1993Aerial Landscapes, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA, USA
Looking at the Land, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Aerial Perspectives, Lincoln Library, Lincoln, MA, USA
1990From the Air, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1988Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, USA
1987Bain and Company, Boston, MA, USA
1986Currier House, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
1984Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA, USA
1980Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Boston, MA, USA
1978Alfred Stieglitz Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Baker Library, Harvard University Business School, Cambridge, MA, USA
1977North Street Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2007Italian Atlas 2007 Portrait of a Changing Italy, National Museum of the XXI Century, Rome, Italy
 Moving Through New England, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
TO FLY: Contemporary Aerial Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2006Painters of Modern Life: Donation – The Caisse des Depots, Photographic Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (is now part of the permanent collection of the Musee national d’art moderne)
Looking at the Landscape: Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA, USA
2005Les temps des lumieres, Nancy, France
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Il, USA
2004Inhabiting the World, Forum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain
Shock and Awe, Art Works for the Earth, New Orleans, LA, USA
Landscapes, Issabella/Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Structure; Architecture in Photography, Gallery Katz, Boston, MA, USA
Shrinking Cities, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2002Water: An Exhibition of Photography by ASMP New England Photographers, Akillian Gallery at Massasoit Community College, Canton, MA, USA
2001Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place and Water: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,  DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
2000Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux, France
1999The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1998Drive-Ins: Disappearing Summer Cinema, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape, The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Water, Water, Everywhere . . . and Not a Drop to Drink, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
Ground Control, Lombard/Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
1997 Let It Snow!, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
Aerial Perspectives: Imagination, Reality and Abstraction, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Lasting Impressions: Looking at the Land, The New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA, USA
1996The DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
Silver Traces, The Boston Photo Collaborative, Boston, MA, USA
1993Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, University of Pennsylvania, School of Landscape Architecture, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA
1991Good Sports: Art and the Athlete, Nutrilite Exhibit, Buena Park, CA, USA
1990Images of New England, The Wrubel Gallery, Concord, MA, USA
1989In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York, NY, USA
1988Aerial Views of the Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA
1987The Edge of Perception, Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Skyborne: Aerial Photography, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA
1986One Percent for Art and the Rebirth of Madonna Hall, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, USA
1984Urban Landscapes, Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Highlights from the Bank of America Collection, Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, USA
1983H20, Pan American Building, New York, NY, USA (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator)
Contemporary Landscapes, Freeport McMoran, New York, NY, USA (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator)

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