Tim Davis Fine Print

Empire Bricks, 2021

Archival inkjet print, 11x16.5" image on 13x18.5" paper

Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist

Frame not included

Upstate Event Horizon is an expansive, ongoing series of photographs about the feeling of living in this region. An “event horizon” is the exact place where the gravity of a black hole relinquishes its hold on light. I grew up in this part of the world, went to college here, and when I moved back twenty years ago, I felt that the gravity of NYC didn’t quite hold here. Everything didn’t feel “seen.” I have walked through 300 villages, cities, hamlets, spending thousands of hours traversing this beautiful, strange, neglected place for all its complicated beauty, promise, and sadness. I am interested in photographs that wrestle with at least two contradictory ideas simultaneously. In this case, the power and potential of empire, of the Empire State, but, here, diminished, piled up, and neglected.

Tim Davis is an artist, essayist, and songwriter based in Tivoli, New York. He is the author of many photobooks, including I’m Looking Through You and My Life in Politics from Aperture, Hallucinations from Punctum Press, and Permanent Collection from Nazraeli. Fall Line Press will release his new book, Normaltown, in 2025. His works have been exhibited in prominent gallery and museum spaces, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; White Cube, London; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago; and MACRO Museum, Rome. He teaches photography at Bard College.