Photographer Edward Fausty Walking in the Woods and Taking Pictures with Snow

Edward Fausty is a photographer and printmaker specializing in collotype and digital pigment printing on fine papers. His relationship to the medium began long ago when he was given a roll film camera at the age of four and began darkroom work at the age of eleven.
Deeply influenced by his undergraduate work with Joel Meyerowitz at The Cooper Union and graduate work with Richard Benson at Yale University, his direction and evolution over the decades has been largely independent of these early academic influences, resulting in numerous distinct but concentrated bodies of work all visible on www.edwardfausty.com : scanned polaroid negatives of sprouting plants; progressively blurred self portraits (collotypes) printed on a letterpress; pictures made with a view camera from within an incubator; mountains of north central Norway; artists’ studios at a factory in Jersey City; views of the land and sky at night; and intimate/global circular views of the forest. In all these projects, the print and paper have anchored the work in the classic tradition of the fine print.
Fausty’s work is represented in such collections as The Canadian Center for Architecture, The George Eastman House, The U.S. Library of Congress, Pfizer Corporation, Yale University and others. He has exhibited work at Princeton University (Atelier Fellowship with Accra Shepp), The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Gallery Bi Damas in Japan, Paul Sharpe, DM Contemporary and Carter Burden Galleries in New York City, The World Theatre Festival in Nancy, France, and Inquiry Art Gallery in Boonton, New Jersey. His series Next Frontier: the Land and the Night Sky has been featured at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ, the Lewis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City, and the Visual Arts Center of NJ. Fausty has also received NYFA and NEA fellowships working with Brian Rose on a project documenting Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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EDUCATION
MFA Photography, Yale School of Art, 1986, studies with printer and MacArthur Fellow Richard Benson, inspired by his photo-
lithographs. Studies with Tod Papageorge, Joel Sternfeld. BFA, Cooper Union School of Art, 1979, studies with printer Norman Sanders who later suggests collotype as a photomechanical process. Studies with Joel Meyerowitz; immersion in his large & small format color work and sensiblity. Studies with sculptors Christopher Wilmarth and Reuben Kadish.
AWARDS
Art Fair 14c, Jersey City, February 2020, Best in Show Award for Looking Down a Very Dark Road
Princeton University Atelier Program, visiting artist, 2007, with Accra Shepp
Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), July 2001, best in show (online review by Don Archer of
Digital Printmaking Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Survey Grant in Photography, 1983
Creative Artists Program Services (CAPS) (later NYFA) grant, 1981
Hudson River Museum Annual, 1979
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
The United States Library of Congress
Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Canadian Center For Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Goldman Sachs, Inc., New York
Pfizer, Inc., New York
The Hoboken Historical Museum
CURATORIAL WORK
Co-curator of About Photography exhibit (with Robert Kosinski), 2007, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ
Curator of Beauty of Big at Victory Hall, 2002, exhibit of large scale painting, installations,
drawing, photography, and digital printing.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Review of Art Fair 14C Juried Exhibit, 2020, by Tris McCall
Asbury Park Press (App.com) review of Stardust, Rahway Exhibit Revels in Heavenly Sights
The Left Bank Art Blog, June 19, 2011, Next Frontier review by Charles Kessler
The Star Ledger, Fausty Photos of the Night at Hunterdon, Dan Bischoff, review of the Next Frontier Exhibit ,April, 2011
11 minute video tour of Next Frontier at Hunterdon Art Museum
The Tris McCall Report, online review of A Fragile Utopia solo exhibit, 2005
MOCA, Museum of Computer Art, online review of Digital Printmaking Now exhibit at Brooklyn Museum, 2001
The Record, June 20, 2003, A Warehouse of Diverse Art
The Jersey Journal, Jan. 2001, Cat’s-eye View of Art Studios
The New York Times, Vivien Raynor, July 7, 1996, A Print Show By 12 Workshop Members
The Union Daily (Taipei, Taiwan, in chinese), Jan.1995, Printing and Light Come Together
describing exhibition and lecture given at Pan Pan Artspace. (article in Chinese)
The Jersey Journal, May, 1992, Cannibalism describing group show of that name
Canadian Center for Architecture, MIT Press, 1989, Architecture and its Image museum catalog
The Village Voice, Oct. 2, 1984, Lower Manhattan
Sy Rubin, ed., The Henry Street Settlement, New York, 1981, The Lower East Side
Artforum Magazine, Sept., 1981, Ed Fausty, Brian Rose
The New York Times, May 8, 1981, The Lower East Side: A Contemporary Portrait in Photographs
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