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Bruce Adams
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1984

About the Item

Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the layers of meaning inherent in making and viewing art. Artist Statement: Sometime around 1981 I was at my mother-in-law's house reading National Geographic, when I came across an article on the microchip. The chip was just beginning to make its mark on our everyday lives, but the average person didn't yet own a computer, and few knew what a chip was, or had any familiarity with such terms as ram, bite, or bit. I was fascinated by the article, and all that it implied for our future. One of the things that intrigued me was the microscopic images of chip technology that accompanied the article. The micro compressor patterns on the chips were described as being like tiny cities, but they struck me more like microscopic abstract designs, or at least metaphorical modernist blueprints for Le Corbusier's city of tomorrow. Technology was not only changing the way we live, it was introducing a new visual language to accompany recently coined vocabulary on an international scale. This technological revolution seemed like the industrial revolution of a hundred years earlier. The atmosphere of discovery paralleled early modernism, or at least I felt the sort of excitement for the promise of the future that modernists once felt. For me the gap between art and science narrowed as I read that article. Just as modernists responded to and sometimes led the industrial revolution, so it seemed that art must now respond to and comment on, or even lead the changes that were occurring to society in the 1980s.

Creator:
Bruce Adams (1952, American)
Creation Year:
1984
Dimensions:
Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic,Found Objects,Graphite,Spray Paint
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Buffalo, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1392533172