Proving Ground
On view September 14 – December 14, 2019
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Logan, Utah
artmuseum.usu.edu
In a remote region of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, a classified military site called Dugway Proving Ground remains largely hidden from public view, closed to civilians and rarely seen in the media. Since its founding during World War II, Dugway Proving Ground has been a test site for chemical and biological weapons.
In 2014, after a decade of inquiry to the Pentagon, artist David Maisel was granted access to Dugway Proving Ground.
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is pleased to present this new body of work by Maisel, who was awarded a prestigious 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Arts for the Proving Ground project. Through large-scaled photographs and video projection, “Proving Ground” immerses the viewer in this surreal and alien realm – in Maisel’s words, a “hidden, walled-off, and secret site that offers the opportunity to reflect on who and what we are collectively, as a society.”
“Proving Ground” is available to rent beginning in January of 2020. To learn more, contact Kat Taylor at [email protected].
Image credit: David Maisel, Tower Grid_02, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, 2019. Dye sublimation prints on aluminum, nine elements, each element 40 x 40 inches.
