Artist Full Name:
Jake Mazzaferro

Based Out Of:
Dorset, Vermont

Bio:
Jake Mazzaferro is an artist born and raised on the East End of Long Island, coming from a long line of fishermen and tradesmen. Now based in Dorset, Vermont, where he works as a metal fabricator, Mazzaferro draws on a deep understanding of manual labor, material resilience, and the effects of time.

Working across a range of materials and processes, his practice explores the tension between industrial control and natural collapse. Referencing shipwrecks, eroded structures, and remnants of once-functional objects, his work examines how time transforms both physical materials and the meanings attached to them.

Through sculptural interventions that balance preservation and disruption, Mazzaferro explores the fragile relationship between human attempts to repair, control, and impose order on objects that have already been reshaped by time. His work exists in a space where memory is preserved, fractured, and reimagined.

Site:
North Bennington – Any Site / Historic Train Station

Sculpture Title:
After the Hull Forgets It Was a Ship

Dimensions:
6 ft. × 10 in. × 10.5 in.

Materials:
1800s Long Island shipwreck wood, hand-turned and painted ash wood pushpins, steel, stainless steel

Price:
N/A (open to commissions for pushpins)