“My work is an attempt to document my existence - to leave a visual record of my thoughts, ideas, and fantasies. I reside in the wilds of Kentucky, with a bird, on a mountaintop, right next to the sun, where I create my artwork high on butterfly wine."
Bruce New/ Artist Statement

"There’s something paradoxical about Bruce New’s eloquent mixed media pieces. Employing his own consistent and complex visual language, New conveys symbolic messages that are at once universal and extremely personal."
Lynne Adele/ Raw Vision Magazine 77

"Bruce New’s art takes us somewhere outside of our own experience, but intimately deep within his own. Ultimately, the experience that he presents us with is love. His recurrent imagery of birds, exalted female figures on pedestals, crystalline shapes , letters and numerals are all visual manifestations of his love for his wife, Robin."
Jay Wehnert/ All You Need Is Love, Truly

"Taken together, Bruce New’s collages tell the story of a man’s life, his love for his wife, and the challenges they face together in a way that renders the common act of living as mythically powerful. These works are daring, even radical, in their design and execution, but the ardor, devotion, and exultation that gave rise to them ensures their timeless appeal."
Matt Collinsworth/ The Night Is Only A Dream

"His collages, full of a deep and personal vocabulary of symbolic imagery, engage the viewer with their compelling graphic nature and their ultimate mystery."
Gus Kopriva/Redbud Arts Center Houston

"Bruce New is a self-taught artist and his work is personal yet universal in its themes of love, dreams, etc. The viewers will find part of your life in his artworks."
Hiromi Nishiyama/Hiromart Gallery Tokyo

"New’s drawing style is certainly unique. The eyes of his characters have two irises, and in some instances they have a double row of eyes. It’s Cubist in style, though highly edited, allowing the negative space to show the layered and yellowed newspaper below. "
Susie Tommaney/ Houston Press

"New's imagery is beautifully complex with unique elements reflecting our society. Graphic figures with symbolic iconography contrast columns of the printed word—both reflecting occurrences of today's world. The various graphic elements are manipulated to create an intricate layered surface to explore and contemplate."
Chuck Gniech/ Chicago Fine Art

"New's drawings aren't simply paeans directed one way, from a husband to his wife. They are loving transactions between husband and wife. Were his works only directed from him to her, then they would come closer to showing the characteristics we associate with obsession. New, however, is always changing his work, inventing and exploring new expression within his world."
Ann Starr/ Starr Review

"New's work shows the visual influences of popular culture, such as video games, comic books, and tattoos. He often draws creatures that are half-horse, half-human. Others are part human and part machine."
Margaret Day Allen/ When The Spirits Speaks

"You can check out very contemporary sensibilities, such as the work of nationally recognized artist Bruce New of Richmond, Kentucky, whose mixed media compositions are strongly graphic, often featuring bits of newsprint, with otherworldly figures that seem simultaneously ancient and futuristic."
Jenni Laidman/Louisville Magazine

"Bruce New’s art is a captivating paradox—universal yet personal, ancient yet modern. His mixed media works, rich with symbolic messages and balanced polarities, invite viewers into a world of questions and mysteries. A self-taught visionary artist, New creates to document his existence and share his unique perspective."
John Maizels/Raw Vision Magazine

"The creation of his work is itself a labor of love; his affection for his wife is clear in his pieces when the viewer understands the back-story, New’s influences, his symbolism, and his method."
Laura B. Astorian/Examining If Outsider Art Can Exist In The Internet Age