Photos by Tsar Fedorsky for The Quarry Project photo series
“The Quarry Project is a continuation of my 20-year practice investigating the properties of black-and-white photography and how it creates abstraction from realism. Begun in 2016, these quarry photographs are a study in duality and tension. They comprise a deep exploration of the familiarity of place, the quarries near my home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, yet contain a longing to be transported to another world, a larger life, even infinity. They straddle a space between truth and fiction, between the exterior and interior, between fact and dream. Although rooted in landscape, they are self-portraits, revealing a state of mind, more psychological and emotional than pragmatic. The sense of mystery and the desire for the unknown create an ongoing dichotomy – we think we are looking up, yet we are really looking down. We think we see the sky, but instead we see the water. What appears to be a mountain, is actually a rock. The bottomless black void is filled with reflection and imagination. In society right now—with the pandemic, war, the dire effects of climate change and a dangerous political theater—meaning is breaking down, language has lost its meaning and we are left in a perpetual state of questioning. The Quarry Project embraces this confusion, allows for projection and the possibility that a negative space can be beautiful. “~ Tsar Fedorsky, Gloucester, MA
The Quarry Project is a continuation of Manship Artist Tsar Fedorsky’s twenty-year practice investigating the properties of black-and-white photography and how it creates abstraction from realism. Begun in 2016, the more recent quarry photographs are a study in duality and tension. They comprise a deep exploration of the familiarity of place, the quarries near Fedorsky’s home in Gloucester. Fedorsky explains the meaning behind her work:
“They straddle a space between truth and fiction, between the exterior and interior, between fact and dream….We think we are looking up, yet we are really looking down. We think we see the sky, but instead we see the water. What appears to be a mountain, is actually a rock.” ~Tsar Fedorsky
Reception with the Artist, Tsar Fedorsky: Friday, June 7, 5:30-7:30 pm
Open the following Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 pm:
June 8 + 9
June 22 + 23
June 29 + 30, and
July 6 + 7
Also open by appointment.
(The exhibition will not be open Saturday and Sunday, June 15 -16, due to another engagement.)
Click on this link to register to attend, and to receive directions and parking information.
Photos by Tsar Fedorsky for The Quarry Project photo series
Photos by Tsar Fedorsky for The Quarry Project photo series
Photos by Tsar Fedorsky for The Quarry Project photo series
