The Final Frontier: Photographs of Land and Beyond
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Edward Fausty’s A Fragile Utopia, documenting life and work at the now demolished artists building, 111 First Street,
contained a number of night views, and Fausty has continued to explore the night experience in the present series, The
Final Frontier. Whereas all his former work originated on film, this work has been digital from its origin. Aside from the
added convenience, the digital camera seems to enhance the rendering of stars and preserves better than film the accurate
color experience of night light.
The title, The Final Frontier, comes from the voiceover introduction to the old television series Star Trek, and invokes Fausty’s
fascination with the interface of our known world and the vast unknown of space. We live on a small island in a large sea.
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 shown at Princeton University,
The Brooklyn Museum, Gallery Bi Damas in Japan, Paul Sharpe Contemporary in New York, The World Theatre Festival
in Nancy, France. A graduate of the Yale Master of Fine Arts program and The Cooper Union School of Art, he has recently
finished an artist residency at Princeton University.
The prints, digital pigment on smooth eggshell fine art paper, are 34" long dimension, signed and numbered in pencil
on the printed black border. Edition size is fifteen. There are approximately twenty images in the series.
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link to additional Final Frontier images