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2005 / 2009 / AMA09
Created in 2005 /
Published in 2009 /
No. AMA09
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About Alex MacleanThe 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…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
1969 Harvard College, B.A. 1973 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Master in Architecture 1975 Commercial Pilot License Studion in Cambridge lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2007 American Artifacts, Gallery Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France Wellesley College, Horticulture Visitor Center, Wellesley, MA, USA 2006 Italian and French Landscapes, Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, MA, USA 2005 Airlines, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
2003 Patterns 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 2002 Play 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 2001 American Institute of Architects (local chapter), Dallas, TX, USA 2000 From Above: Photographs of Houston, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA 1997 Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA 1994 Aerial Landscapes, Seaside Institute, Seaside, FL, USA 1993 Aerial 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 1990 From the Air, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC, USA 1988 Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, USA 1987 Bain and Company, Boston, MA, USA 1986 Currier House, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 1984 Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, USA San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA, USA 1980 Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Boston, MA, USA 1978 Alfred Stieglitz Gallery, New York, NY, USA Baker Library, Harvard University Business School, Cambridge, MA, USA 1977 North Street Gallery, Boston, MA, USA Group Exhibitions
2007 Italian 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 2006 Painters 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 2005 Les temps des lumieres, Nancy, France Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Il, USA 2004 Inhabiting 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 2002 Water: An Exhibition of Photography by ASMP New England Photographers, Akillian Gallery at Massasoit Community College, Canton, MA, USA 2001 Mutations: 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 2000 Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux, France
1999 The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada 1998 Drive-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 1996 The DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, USA Silver Traces, The Boston Photo Collaborative, Boston, MA, USA 1993 Taking 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 1991 Good Sports: Art and the Athlete, Nutrilite Exhibit, Buena Park, CA, USA 1990 Images of New England, The Wrubel Gallery, Concord, MA, USA 1989 In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York, NY, USA 1988 Aerial Views of the Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA 1987 The Edge of Perception, Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles, CA, USA Skyborne: Aerial Photography, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA 1986 One Percent for Art and the Rebirth of Madonna Hall, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, USA 1984 Urban Landscapes, Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, TX, USA Highlights from the Bank of America Collection, Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, USA 1983 H20, 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)