Jersey City artist Edward Fausty said he loves the 111 First St. building, a former warehouse that now contains 300 artists’ studios, in the downtown district of the city.His passion for the building led him to create a series titled "111 First Street," which consists of large-scale photographs of aspects of the building. In "Rooftop," Fausty captures the sun setting on the roof.
His exhibition, held at the Tomasulo Gallery on the first floor of the Kenneth MacKay Library on the Cranford campus of Union County College at 1033 Springfield Ave., is a series of pigmented digital inkjet prints known as giclee. French for spit, giclee is the concept of output on plain uncoated arches covers, which are 100 percent rag cotton paper.
These prints, Fausty explained, are made on an Epson wide-format printer that "spits" the ink onto the paper, creating the image dot by dot. The result is a print that has the feel of a watercolor or pastel painting.
"He has taken some wonderful photographs, which he prints out as giclees," said Valeri Larko, director of the Tomasulo Gallery. "The end results are beautiful large-scale photographs that look as if they were painted."
The photographs in "111 First Street" were originally taken to preserve his memories of where he has kept a studio for more than three years.
Fausty earned a bachelor’s degree from Cooper Union School of Art and his master’s of fine arts in photography from Yale School of Art.
The Tomasulo Gallery exhibit will debut on Nov. 14 through Dec. 18 at the gallery at 1033 Springfield Ave. For information call (908) 709-7503. q