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"...art, science and pop culture are so deftly intermingled that concepts like "artistic genius" are abruptly rendered quaint and old fashioned." Richard Huntington  
"I was struck by his vigorous painting style and intriguing combinations of images..." Bill Arning
 

"Humor abounds in the work, yet painstakingly earnest layers of ideological exegesis lie concealed beneath the humorous veneers." Elizabeth Licata


Introduction and overview of the work
by UB curator Sandra Q. Firmin

Reviews and other
assorted media bites:

Simulate Direct Experience With Freeing Marks
Catalogue essay for Bruce Adams, Half Life 1980-2006
John Massier, 2007

An Artist Revealed, Mark Lavatelli, March 16, 2007

Visual Arts Preview: The excavations of Mr. Adams, March 2007

Picture perfect, Mark Lavatelli, Feb. 24, 2006

Bruce Adams Interview ArtVoice, K. Young, Oct. 2 2003

A Painter of the Illustrated Body, ArtVoice, Elizabeth Licata, Oct. 15, 1997

Identifying Marks: The Tattooed Nudes of Bruce Adams, Tattooed Woman Catalogue, Richard Huntington, 1998

In tattoos and piercings, beauty on woman's terms, Buffalo News, Mark Lavatelli, Sept. 9, 1998

4 artists, 4 styles, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, Oct. 19, 2001

Ironies of History, In Bruce Adams 'paintings, looking backward with wit, Buffalo news, Richard Huntington, Feb. 16 1996

Changes in Attitude: Individual mood, personal ideas in two exhibitions, Buffalo News, Richard Hungtington, March 15, 1995

Bruce Adams: Research and development, Catalogue essay, Elizabeth Licata, 1996

Adams takes humoristic look at life with art, Niagara Gazette, Ellen S. Comerford, March 8, 1996

Alone Together, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, April 1, 1994

Adams' Archaeologists Dig Into Layers, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, March 9, 1987

In search of Certainty, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, August 1 1986

City is Theme, Spirit of Hallwalls Art, Buffalo News, Jack Foran

New Exhibit to open at gallery, The Chronicle-Express, Oksana Lukaszewycz Polon, Nov 16, 1988

 

Short takes:

 


Healthy Skepticism, Colin Dabkowski, October 10, 2008

In on the Joke, Artvoice, Lucy Yau, January 31, 2008

Sharing Show, Buffalo News, Jana Eisenberg, March 25 2005

Red Ink Drawing Out the Arts, ArtVoice, Eric Jackson-Fronsberg, march 24 2005

Humor, creativity in Big Orbit, Buffalo News, Buffalo News, Natalie Green Tessier, date unknown

Touch It: Black Velvet at Hallwalls Art Voice, Elizabeth Licata, Jan 28 1998

Art Stars and Their Boosters at Buffalo State, ArtVoice, Cynnie Gaasch, Aug 12 2004

Artists in Residence: Ten Creative People pick their favorite furniture, Buffalo News Home Decor, Susan Martin, March 10, 1996

Art Show on 'Sin' Is More Than Skin Deep, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington,

Critics' Choices: Double Image, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington Feb. 9 1996

Hard work, Richard Huntington, Buffalo News,

With relish, Richard Huntington, Buffalo News, Feb. 19, 1999

Quality Work by Area Artists Delights at the Albright-Knox, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, May 1, 1988

WNY Exhibition: A short peek under the many masks of 41st Juried Albright Knox show, Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, May 26, 1986

Artists pick the artists, Democrat and Chronicle, Ron Netsky, July 13, 1986

Artists' choices, Rochester City Newspaper, unknown author, July 3 1986