Jeffery Becton
Ephemera (Single)
DESCRIPTION
The bones of this photograph were taken at a condemned stately home in Bar Harbor, ME called the Calendar House. It was full of doorways, grand staircases and floor to ceiling windows which appealed to my strong sense of graphic design and the niggling understanding that collectively they invoke a journey either of separation or a beckoning. The home was full of someone else's memories. It was full of ghosts who held the key to its forgotten joys and loss of stewardship. Along the walls I have layered a winter scene taken near where I live on Deer Isle. To add to this sense of abandonment I included a thin layer of barnacles I took from the hull of a decommissioned buoy tender I photographed in Nova Scotia. As the title infers, like ephemera, a family's history has vanished into thin air. The question I put to the viewer is where are you on this journey between recovery and discovery?
AUTHOR
Born 1947 Englewood, New Jersey
EDUCATION
1976 MFA Graphic Design Yale School of Art
1970 BA History Yale College
After graduating I became an early pioneer in digital photography using photoshop and eventually mastered Fine Art digital printing. I am primarily self taught. I’ve lived and worked on Deer Isle, Maine since the early 70’s in relative isolation.
Most Recent
AWARDS
2022 Honorable Mention Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
2022 Honorable Mention online Center for Fine Art Photography
EXHIBITIONS
2024 New Bedford Whaling Museum Massachusetts
2023 Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine
2022 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition London
2022 AH Studio London
2022 Courthouse Gallery Ellsworth, Maine
2020 Koman Fine Art Vero Beach, Florida
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Farnsworth Museum of Art Rockland, Maine
Portland Museum of Art Maine
Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston, Maine
Munson Proctor Museum of Art Utica, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art Louisiana
ARTICLES Etc.
2023 Maine Arts Journal (winter) essay Christopher Crosman
2022 Artlyst (summer) essay Niko Kos
2022 Creative Boom (July) essay Dom Carter
2022 Considering Art Podcast with Bob Chaundy London
2021 Talking Art in Maine with Jane Dahmen Damariscotta,
Maine
2015 The Farthest House by Carl Little (book)
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