{"id":8094,"date":"2014-11-04T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=8094"},"modified":"2023-06-28T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:03:34","slug":"photographs-by-jeffery-becton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/2015-2\/photographs-by-jeffery-becton\/","title":{"rendered":"The View Out His Window (and in his mind\u2019s eye): Photographs by Jeffery Becton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The View Out His Window (and in his mind\u2019s eye): <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Photographs by Jeffery Becton<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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November 6, 2015 – March 26, 2016<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Jeffery Becton is a photographer and image-maker who lives on Deer Isle, a rocky and forested island off the coast of Maine. Becton makes work, in part, about his surroundings. The extraordinary sweeping coastal views that are such a part of daily life when one lives by the sea are often incorporated into his images. Equally critical is internal life, both the space inside the home (and the comfort and protection it provides from northern New England\u2019s inclement weather), and the introspective and contemplative space that enlivens one\u2019s imagination, and is no doubt encouraged in this stunning and remote location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After viewing many works of Becton\u2019s, one is struck by their dreaminess. Dreams after all combine the familiar and unfamiliar in impossible-in-our-world ways, but often seem to make sense\u2014until the dreamer awakens and is confronted by its unbelievability. In Becton\u2019s work, panoramic views of horizons where ocean meets shore are visible in the view out a window yet continue onto the walls inside dwellings. Barnacles one expects to see attached to a ship\u2019s hull or onto tidal rocks live on the pale walls of empty rooms and float in the atmospheric vistas seen through an open door. Waves crest upon beach pebbles improbably situated under the angles of a Cape\u2019s second floor, where they lap at the feet of lonely furnishings. Becton\u2019s images are amalgamations, inversions of interior and exterior, they are places where disparate elements such as crustaceous marine life, thickly painted brushstrokes, and cirrus wisps and mackerel skies exist inside, outside, above, and below. How is it that these often haunting images possess an underlying calm, and seem to make sense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becton makes rather than takes images. Beginning in the early 1990s\u2014technological light years ago\u2014he began experimenting with digital montage, creating images by fusing visual information from photographs, and scans of and from paintings, drawings, into his compositions. Over the years, the subtlety and complexity of his imagery and ideas has evolved along with a fluid inventiveness and mastery of digital processes. To create the works reproduced in this publication, Becton photographed, paints, layered, fused, and altered digital imagery from myriad sources, and then seamlessly constructed pictures. In these sublime and illusory images, Becton shares a view filled with mystery and harmony from his island Down East and his mind\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Mills, Curator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images courtesy of the artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maine Sunday Telegram, January 10, 2016
Bates awash in Jeffery Becton’s unique imagery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WCSH6 – January 8, 2016
Interview on 207<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Portland Press Herald, January 10, 2016
Art Review: Bates Museum of Art awash in Jeffrey Becton\u2019s unique photo works<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maine Sunday Telegram, November 29, 2015
Photographed to Abstraction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Portland Press Herald, November 29, 2011
Jeffrey Becton’s metaphorical Maine larger than life at Bates College Museum of Art<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maine Sunday Telegram, November 1, 2015
Deer Isle photographer featured at Bates museum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Herald, November 1, 2015
Photogrpaher Jeffery Becton to show work at Bates College Museum of Art<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Down East Magazine, November 2015
Deer Isle artist Jeffery Becton creates surreal places from the bits and bytes of real ones.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Times Record, October 30, 2015
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