Jack Bice was a young combat photographer in World War II, later a painter in the heady, American post-war art movement. John Avery Bice's career spans over half-a-century.  A master innovator in music, video art and an array of imaging and audio modes, he is in the international vanguard of experimental artists.

Jack Bice: contemporary American painter, video artist, musician, composer, stereographic artist, combat photographer, computer animator, film animator, director, actor, poet, architect, computer graphics designer, muralist, computer color-cycle artist, draughtsman, inventor, writer, humanist, philosopher is presented by the Virtual Gallery.

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Jack (John Avery) Bice Retrospective:  contemporary American painter, video artist, musician, composer, stereographic artist, combat photographer, computer animator, film animator, actor, poet, architect, computer graphics designer, muralist, computer color-cycle  artist, inventor, writer, humanist, philosopher, presented by the Virtual Gallery.

Jack Bice: contemporary American painter, video artist, musician, composer, stereographic artist, combat photographer, computer animator, film animator, director, actor, poet, architect, computer graphics designer, muralist, computer color-cycle artist, draughtsman, inventor, writer, humanist, philosopher is presented by the Virtual Gallery.

Images:  Jack Bice, Retrospective, Earliest Works:  Pre-WWII - Wartime - Post-war:  Photo, City Park, paper negative print, from Denver Natural History Museum, Denver, Colorado, age 15, 1939.  White Wave, pen, watercolors, 1942.  U.S. troops on "Queen Elizabeth", sailing for Europe, 1944.

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VirtualGalleryEntry C  vIRTUALgALLERY  1  Jack Bice WWII Europe combat war photos, Germany aerial reconnaissance pictures, Elbe River surrender; England, France, Omaha Beach, Belgium, Holland. 42  Jack Bice 3-D Stereo, Stereoptic, Stereographic Animation Art   135  Jack Bice poetry: A poem from combat, February 1945, reaction to war deaths and reports of Southern lynchings. 35  John Avery Bice writings and biographical references, Poetry, Biographical, Philosophy: Metaphorical Image in Art; Omniensce; Personal History in Music; Futurismo draft notes; Poetry from If / Then; Armageddon or Transfiguration; Anguish (Warrick's Death); Why Artists and Art.  45  Jack Bice retrospective random tour  Venetian glass mural, 1960 Three-story staircase, Colorado State University, Collaboration with Amy Hamouda. 17  Jack Bice drawings with mini-slide show, 1944 to Present, Wartime Drawings, Left-hand drawings done in hospital with polio, 1948, Student drawings, University of Colorado, Drawing-related Paintings.  46  Jack Bice photography: Miscellaneous photos, "art" photographs; scenes, settings, still-lifes, experimental photography, stereo, stereoptic, stereographic 3-D photography 47  Jack Bice Kyla Thea computer art montage 131  Jack Bice color-cycling computer art animation Argonauts 68  Jack Bice "Reclaim Our Future", reclaiming our destiny from war and political insanity, op-ed essays, following 9-11, "A Through-the-Looking-Glass War", "Armageddon or Transfiguration" 170  Jack Bice Mexican family San Miguel Allende girl men rifles  89  Jack Bice Juliet trees Sicily Sicilia   90  Amy Hamouda home page  75  Jack Bice photo essays, mini-slideshow, Mexico Tangier Italy England Combat photographs Europe, 1945-1946, Delos Avery photographs of Chicago, 1930s  171  Jack Bice Tales of Hoffman lost painting, oil on panel 97  Jack Bice German Gestopo officer Elbe River Germany Surrender May 1945  98  Jack Bice hospital painting, blue surrealistic lanscape 1948 left hand recovering from polio 54  Jack Bice Seer oil on cardboard, collection of artist, done after studies with Max Beckmann 56  Jack Bice, Goebbels as Christ captured film anim of Nazi propaganda minister morphing into Christ 140 Jack Bice Hoensbroek Holland Nederlands 1944 della Roi Family war in Europe  60  Jack John Avery Bice Computer-driven, subliminally morphing, color-cycle painting Proposed installation,  Albright-Knox Art Museum Buffalo New York. 1989.  10  Jack Bice Man and Wall Tangier Morocco 1970 photo essay picture 91  Jack Bice "Berries" Early photo made with invented close-up device, 1941Kodachrome 828 color photograph slide 63  Jack Bice  White Wave 1942 Very early colored-pencil painting, done before War II.  Age 17. 61  Jack Bice Early Post-war painting study, 1947.  Oil on linen sized with shellac, gnarled tree, moon, surrealistic scene. J Nelson collection.  58  Jack Bice  "Ice Trellise", stereoptic stereographic modular 3-D photo mural, 4' x 12', 1967, viewed through invented mirror podium. Created from enlarged macro photographic direct positive film stereo images made in studio from small 35mm cardboard frame with 3 dimensionally stretched airplane glue. Reconstructed, 1975, Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, New York.  Robert Longo, Director. Museum of Holography, NYC, History of 3D Exhibition, 1976. Vasulka collection.  59  Jack Bice  Surrealistic selfportrait  1951, painted while studying with Ben Shahn.  Oil-wax encaustic painting  66    Jack Bice Miniaturescape Series #6, 1955.  Pastel-casein, mixed media painting, painted during graduate studies with Mark Rothko 64  Jack John Avery Bice music composition cd   191    Jack John Avery Bice monogram "Born in Longmont Colorado, 1923 12  Jack Bice murals, Colorado State University Student Center murals, Venetian glass and ceramic tiles, computer mural designs, "Galliard". 18  Jack Bice video art, works done at Media Studies, University of Buffalo, New York, and with Steina and Woody Vasulka, 1970s, mini-slideshow of artist, Santa Fe, 1990s.  103  Jack Bice computer animations Goebbels as Christ (captured at Gestapo headquarters), 1991, Amiga computer animation; Monumental Works - color-morphing and Animated Stereoptic 3-D stereo stereographic Art, Computer Works, computer paintings, montage. 94  Jack Bice Complete Works, alternative entry page to Jack Bice Retrospective Jack Bice stereo stereoptic stereographic 3-D art, page 1 of 3D paintings drawings computer designs, animated 3D stereographic art with cross-the-eyes viewing instructions for 3D screen images. 92  Jack Bice early works, Pre-WWII wartime and post-war earliest art works with mini-slideshow.  212  Jack Bice, "Courtyard" oil painting done during studies with Max Beckmann Beckman, who painted on the canvas, adding red to the bow, 1949.  4  Jack Bice, miniature-scape, pastel-casein, late painting, 1984, Austin TX .  69  Jack Bice, untitled large-scale oil painting, done in graduate painting studio, University of Colorado, 1960, Craig Summers collection, Albuquerque  96  Jack Bice, untitled large-scale oil painting, done in graduate painting studio, University of Colorado, 1960, Cory McDonald collection, Albuquerque  162  Jack Bice, Photo Retrospective page 1  201  Jack Bice, Photo Retrospective page 2  202  Jack Bice, Venus Envy, casein, ink on cardboard, 1955  234  Jack Bice, Sea Scene, oil on canvas, 1960  233  Jack Bice, King's Crown, oil on panel, 1964, Boulder, Colorado  232  Jack Bice, Desert Patio, oil painting on canvas, 1960, collection of the artist  231  Jack Bice, Pirate Deck, oil painting on panel, 1959, Boulder, Colorado  230  Jack Bice, Naples, Italy, 1965, lemonade stand, photo.  200  Jack Bice, paper negative print, very early photograph taken at Museum of Natural History, Denver, 1939, age 15  164  Jack Bice, still-life, seascape, 3 stages of an oil painting, 1960, third stage collection University of Colorado graduate thesis paintings  163  Jack Bice, Mexican Doorway, oil, mixed media painting, 1954, collection R.A. Bice, Albuquerque  161  Jack Bice, Space City, computer painting, animation frame, 1990, Santa Fe  160  Jack Bice, Arctic Landscape, oil painting, done in graduate painting studio, University of Colorado, 1960  137  Jack Bice, Mesa, oil painting, done in Denver, 1956  133  Jack Bice, Arctic Landscape, oil painting, done in Denver, 1956  132  Jack Bice, Cliff with morphing fetal clouds, oil painting, 1960, j nelson collection, Austin  77  Jack Bice, Fruit Peddlers, Tangier, Morroco, 1970, photo  76  Jack Bice, Unicorn horse surrealistic Allegory, crayon carbon transfer drawing with watercolor, 1951, after graduate studies with Ben Shahn.  62  Jack Bice, stereoptic stereo stereographic 3-D modular 12 foot photo mural art, "Ice Trellis" 1967, featured Museum of Holography, History of 3D Exhibition, New York City, 1976, and Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY.  59  Jack Bice, gnarled tree, moon, very early surrealistic oil painting, 1947, ollection Jackie Nelson, Austin, TX.  58  Jack Bice, Narcissus with mirror and hand-grenade, 1950, studies with Ben Shahn, oil on paper collection Margaret and Richard Bice, Albuquerque, NM.  55  Jack Bice, sea-still-life oil painting, 1950 after studies with Max Beckmann, Kegler-Bice collection, Colden, NY.  57  Jack Bice, Japanese snakes computer montage art painting.  37  Jack Bice, Chinese landscape in and water painting art.  38  Jack Bice, Mexican Family, photo, 1963.  19  Jack Bice, large scale painting, untitled, Claremont Ave., Buffalo, NY, 1967.  15  Jack Bice, detail, men with rifles, girl, Mexican Family, San Miguel Allende.  89  Jack Bice, architecture, redesigned contemporary-old-abobe residence, Tesuque, Santa Fe, NM, 1996-1999 .  11WB  Jack Bice stereo, stereoptic, stereographic, stereograms, 3-D art, paintings, montage art page 2  49  Jack Bice computer paintings, montage, art  39  Jack Bice Garden Fantasy, color-cycling, slow-morph computer painting  93  Jack Bice early works, Pre-WWII wartime and post-war earliest art works with mini-slideshow.  213  Jack Bice early works, Pre-WWII wartime and post-war earliest art works with mini-slideshow.  214  Jack Bice Garden Fantasy, color-cycling, slow-morph computer painting  150  Jack Bice very earliest works of record: paper negative print photo at Denver Museum Natural History, 1948 hospital polio paintings, left hand, Gifhorn Schloss photo, Germany, troops on Queen Elizabeth troop ship, July 1944  70  Jack Bice paintings from mid-period years: Boulder, Denver, Buffalo, Albuqurque, Santa Fe, Siena, Italy, Cory McDonald, Craig Summers  5  Jack Bice paintings from late years, Santa Fe, Austin.  73  Jack Bice paintings from mid-period years: Boulder, Denver, Buffalo, Albuqurque, Santa Fe, Siena, Italy, Cory McDonald, Craig Summers  72  Jack Bice paintings, influences, graduate studies years with Max Beckmann, Ben Shahn, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, University of Colorado  71  Jack Bice poetry from If/Then with grandaughter, Kyla Kegler.  36  Jack Bice family word game if / then  67  Jack John Avery Bice Major Series home page 3  Jack John Avery Bice graduate studies Max Beckmann, Ben Shahn, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still; students, Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo   6  Jack John Avery Bice musical composition  severe polio in 1948 at age 25, associates, collegues, composers George Crumb, Terry Riley, John Bergamo, Frederick Rzewski; video artists,Woody Steina Vasulka  11  Jack Bice image catalogue, directory to random tour series of art images.Jack, John Avery Bice inventions and bright ideas 51  Jack John Avery Bice Retrospective, Art, Music Composition, Combat Photos, Paintings, Drawings, Murals, Early Works, Photography, Photo Essays, Travel, Stereographic 3D Art, Animations, Computer Art, Video Art, Writings, 9-11 Essays, Poetry, Games, Inventions  195