Events - 04.01.06
CRAM Gallery Opening: 7:30 to 9:30 pm CRAM Crawl to the 9:30 pm “Dirty Show” Opening and Margaret Dragu performance at NAC Sandy Fairbairn is Niagara’s premier contemporary photo artist. He is an original and one of the most fastidious technicians you may ever encounter. He earned an Honours Degree from OCAD and although he has produced an extensive body of three dimensional, constructed works since 1970, photographic images have always been an important part of his artistic output. Re-emerging onto the scene after a 15 year hiatus, since 2002 Fairbairn has concentrated on moving his photographic work from the traditional, black and white, chemical darkroom to the colour, 'digital darkroom'. Though now often using digital cameras, film remains his preferred capture medium. Though born in Windsor in 1947, Fairbairn has deep roots in Niagara. He carries deeply felt ties to the region and his photos document the landscapes and people in his life. In an austere, anthropological vision of place, wherever he is, Fairbairn re-invents object and place through the eye of the lens and the camera. He finds minimalism and history in his compositions, documents the passage of the everyman, and searches for system, order and meaning in the chaos of reality. More real than real life, Fairbairn plays with the abstract elements that give intensity to his images. All of his work is structural, whether he is looking at landscapes, cityscapes or portraiture, and each print summons narratives as he plays with the abstract starkness that surrounds us in our built structures, natural environment, and social interactions. Sandy Fairbairn, like CRAM, packs a lot of information into a small space, and he is the Official CRAM Photographer. Information/Contact: Tobey C. Anderson at CRAMart.ca
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