BRUCE RICHARDS (b. 1948, Dayton, OH) is a New York based artist who came of age in early 1970s America, an era suffused with disillusionment and shell-shock in response to the political and social changes accelerated by catatonic events: the sexual revolution, assassinations, race riots, Environmental movement and the Vietnam War. Somewhere between the technical prowess of Ed Ruscha and conceptual rigor of Jack Goldstein, Richards makes art that analyzes our relationship to popular culture and mass media – as well as the process by which meaning is carefully crafted by society. Through a dense iconography that unpacks historical artifacts, sculptures, quotidian objects, and ecological fragments, Richards playfully straddles the past and the present by gingerly suspending unassuming subjects that raise timeless questions and metaphors around the human condition. Recent solo exhibitions include Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2024), Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2022), Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (2014). Richards’ work is also in the public collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.