Performance sourced from Internet Archive. Pre-1925 public domain recording of Brahms’ Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118 No. 2. Performer unknown.
A Painter’s Instinct
I paint to reach what language cannot hold.
The forms are not answers—they're echoes, dislocations, and quiet ruptures.
My work emerges from memory, intuition, and the poetic residue of experience.
About the Artist
Bruce Williams is an abstract artist working in oils and acrylics. His paintings explore memory, perception, and poetic ambiguity through layered forms and emotional resonance.
He is a professor of cultural studies at William Paterson University of New Jersey, with a background in cinema, language, and the arts.
Williams holds an M.A, (with distinction) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also solds an M.A. and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania.
Other extended studies have taken him to Paris and to São Paulo.
His extensive academic publications have focused mainly on cinema and other visual arts. They have appeared in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Albanian.
Williams’ most recent exhibition, Topographies of Curiosity, was presented vurtually in English, German, Czech, and Albanian. The event was curated in Prague.
A book on Williams’ art, edited by Anna Stepanova, will be released early Falll, 2025 in Russian by Mirror Table Editions (Gdańsk, Poland). An English translation is exptected in early 2026.
A full CV is available upon request at williamsb@wpunj.edu
A dedicated Music Panel accompanies the current body of work.