Bruce Dorfman

Dorfman has been contributing to American Modernism for several decades by his unique stretching of the properties of his materials and orchestrating their disparate elements. The precision with which he uses his carefully chosen objects establishes the essentials of his compositions and provides visual tension. The interrelationship of the applied bits and pieces he incorporates into each work and sets against soft, colorful grounds gives his oeuvre its singular vision, a vision conveyed as well by his selection of titles which reveal the deeper roots of his inspiration. His wall-hung works -- assemblage paintings -- and smaller works in combined media, reflect his use of richly layered space, color, and light, and an elaborate orchestration of diverse elements taken into a painting sensibility. They are strong emotional evocations of moments and places in time remembered. He has exhibited widely in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is included in major public, private, corporate and museum collections worldwide and he has been the recipient of numerous awards, prizes and grants, among which were a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a New York State Council on the Arts grant. The artist was born in New York City, where he lives and works.