Featured Artist
Jeffrey Heyne
We are so happy to feature the work of Jeffrey Heyne. Jeffrey has been in our notebook for a few years now and I was reminded last Spring when I ran into him that we are overdue to publish a feature. Then his work turned up when I was jurying for Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2022. What timing. Jeffrey’s project To Hunt a Moon is a thoughtful presentation regarding the displacement of native people, landscape, loss, connectivity and the landscape of the moon. Surreal reflections and layered images echoing the impact of American expansion and earthly and lunar landscapes. Here Jeff uses his own photography as well as sourcing NASA images form the Apollo moon landings to produce a meditative, hypnotic tableau. Be sure to read Jeff’s full text on this project. It really drills down the narrative in a thoughtful way.
Steven Duede - Visual Artist and Aspect Gallery principal.
Jeffrey Heyne was launched three years after Sputnik, bought his first camera when eight, practices architecture sometime, and imagines photographic stories all the time. With his various bodies of photographic projects, he engages in a dialectic search for a narrative based on sub-textual readings of disparate images, conceptual collisions, and cultural elisions.
HIs subject matter has ranged from exploring Barbie’s other proportions, to reanimating Muybridge’s freeze-frame photos, unveiling the male-gaze in Renaissance paintings, questioning toxins in industrial architecture, and telling the tales of future geo/politics in outer space. His photos can be found the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Boston Public Library, Boston Athenæum, Bank of America Collection, Marriott, Fidelity Investments, Compaq/HP, and Boston Properties.
He has received awards from CENTER /Sante Fe, Praxis Gallery, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, The Griffin Museum of Photography, and is a Barbara Singer Artist Awardee. He is also a Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist, and has been recognized in 2022 with both a Photolucida Critical Mass Award and a Critical Mass Top 50 Award. His series To Hunt A Moon has garnered eight international awards. His work has been published in Lenscratch, The Photo Review, Mud Season Review, The Boston Globe, Art New England, vArtsMedia, and Redivider Journal. And his work can be seen in the High Rollers Suite scenes in the motion picture, 21, about MIT students gaming the Las Vegas blackjack tables.
He earned a B.Arch. from the Univ. of Cincinnati. He cites his residency with painter Jake Berthot at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy as being pivotal in the focus of his photography.
Since 1995, Heyne shares a live-work art studio with his partner, Dorothea Van Camp, in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston.
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Jeffrey Heyne