The Quarry Project
Tsar Fedorsky
January 5-April 5, 2024
Opening January 5, 6-9pm
Free and open to the public
Aurora PhotoCenter Efroymson Gallery
The beautifully printed images in Tsar Fedorsky’s The Quarry Project continue her 20-year research into black-and-white photography and its power to create abstraction from the reality recorded by the camera. Known for expressive images that relate intensely personal narratives, such as the critically-acclaimed series The Light Under the Door, Fedorsky transforms everyday scenes into a space for contemplation of new lives, identities, and perceptions.
Fedorsky writes, “Begun in 2016, The Quarry Project 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 Quarry Project exhibition at Aurora PhotoCenter is the first time that Tsar Fedorsky’s work has been shown in Indianapolis. Together with Eli Craven’s Beholden on view in the Main Gallery, Aurora’s Spring 2024 exhibitions explore current themes and methods for photographic artists working in abstraction.
“Many people know Tsar Fedorsky’s work through her books. A show like The Quarry Project, with its masterfully rendered, large scale images, highlights the artist’s commitment to the unique qualities of the photographic print. It’s a thrill to bring this gorgeous work to our arts community in one of the first solo exhibitions in Aurora’s new gallery,” said Aurora PhotoCenter Founder Mary Goodwin.
Tsar Fedorsky is a photographer based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Creative Arts in Photography in 2018, was a Critical Mass Finalist in 2015 and 2017 and received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2015. In 2023, she traveled to Brazil as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar. Her photographs have been exhibited and published nationally and worldwide. Fedorsky received an MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford and a BA from Amherst College.
Annual operating support for Aurora PhotoCenter provided by the City of Indianapolis through the Indy Arts Council. Additional support provided by the Efroymson Family Fund.