Joseph Bellows Gallery is presenting an exhibition of photographs by one of the medium’s master photographers. George Tice: Urban Landscapes presents a selection of forty vintage photographs of Tice’s ongoing epic visual poem of his native state of New Jersey.
Renowned for their attentive and quotidian descriptions of the everyday structures and places that define the American cultural landscape, Tice’s photographs catalog a rich and layered journey that is both personal and universal.
In the photographs that comprise Urban Landscapes, Tice defines a sense of America within a tradition rooted in the work of other American masters, namely Edward Hopper and Walker Evans.
Tice’s photographs of New Jersey in the early to mid 1970’s describe a particular time and place; however, as the artist states, “It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal”. Now, with decades past, Tice’s observations have become even more poignant depictions, everlasting a specific era and landscape, as he intended.
George Tice’s photographs have formed an impressive catalog of eighteen notable monographs, including the highly celebrated Paterson (1972), Urban Landscapes, A New Jersey Portrait (1975), and Tice’s most recent book, Seldom Seen (2013), a collection of previously unpublished photographs.
George Tice Urban Landscapes
September 10th – October 28th
7661 Girard Ave
La Jolla, CA 92037
