BRUCE ADAMS

His work is a continuum of 35 years. It began with his classical fine arts training at Mount Allison University and his introduction to the masters and continued through his exploration of modernists including Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet. Over the years he has worked to sustain his evolution as a part-time artist while working full-time as a Director at a big four management consulting firm.

 

His work combines rich conceptual concerns with material experimentation and monumental scales. He has built a visual language full of thick, impastoed gestural marks and a cosmology of symbols and scripts. His materials range from trash and earth to dust and stone, which created a sense of solidity and physicality throughout his body of work.

Each piece is, in itself, an artifact engaging in a dialogue with real and imagined history. Obscure references to mythology and antiquity create a sense of nostalgia and, at the same time, an urgency to grasp ancient knowledge.