Bridge with Orange and Phthalo Blue, 8:24 am, 45" x 30", 2017, edition: 1 of 10, archival pigment print, face-mounted to gloss plexiglass, mounted on Dibond panel

With my ongoing Unnatural Series, I find inspiration in the strange and accidental colors resulting from my failed attempts to process Ektachrome slide film in my parent's basement during the Nixon-Ford administrations.

I recall these unnatural colors in this series to evoke a mood and signal an environmental implication. Colors may be seen as pretty, creating powerful aesthetic and emotional associations. Still, the chemical compounds of paint and ink that make them alluring can often be harmful, toxic, or worse.

Bio

Jeffrey Heyne was launched three years after Sputnik, bought his first camera when he was 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 are at 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, and The Griffin Museum of Photography, and he is a Barbara Singer Artist Awardee. He is also a Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist and was recognized in 2022 with a Photolucida Critical Mass Award and a Critical Mass Top 50 Award.

His work has been published in Lenscratch, The Photo Review, Mud Season Review, The Boston Globe, Art New England, ArtsMedia, and Redivider Journal, and blogs Aspect-Initiative and What Will You Remember?

And his work can be seen in the High Rollers Suite scenes in 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 Todi, Italy, as pivotal in his photography's focus.

Since 1995, Heyne has shared a live-work art studio with his partner, Dorothea Van Camp, in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston.