Tory Fair

A.D. is pleased to present Ground, a solo exhibition by artist Tory Fair. In her series of wall mounted sculptures, stacks of paper, fabric and other personal effects are claimed as drawings by the weight and resulting created space of placed rocks. Making literal paperweights, Fair looks at drawing through the lens of the earthwork, inviting the seeming immutability of nature as an anchor to the layers that she considers a history of personal sediment.

Tory Fair lives and works in the Boston area. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include ICA at MECA, Portland, ME; AreaCode Art Fair, Boston; Drive-By Projects, Watertown; gallery Very, Boston; Proof Gallery, Boston; and The LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Paper Town, Fitchburg Art Museum, You are Here, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, NY; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City. Her work has been reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Sculpture Magazine, and Boston Art Review, among others. She was a recent artist in residence at RAIR, (Recycled Artist In Residency, Philadelphia, PA), and has been the recipient of awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, LEF Foundation, and the Mass Cultural Council. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and M.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Fair is Professor of Sculpture at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.