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A silver lightning… ... Adivrekar's career, with its ascending graph, is living proof of the fact that a talent from the distant mofussil can be transplanted into a huge metropolis like Bombay and can still bloom and flower from strength to strength. Adivrekar studied in the Sir. J. J. School of Art at a time when the winds of change were already setting down and revolutionary new directions were becoming apparent. Building on the brilliance of his student career, Adivrekar went on to lay the foundations of a sustained achievement. If the seaside surf and rock, the silver moon hanging in the sky, lingered in his sub-conscious. Adivrekar's job as a weaver's designer held threat of inhibition. But, aided by phenomenal hard work. Adivrekar turned out canvas after canvas of supreme beauty. Soon the winds of Europe and Africa enveloped him. Spurred on by superb abstractions, he suddenly surprised with a show of lucid, dynamic, watercolors. Throughout all these years, Adivrekar has never looked back. The eminent positions he has held in New Delhi and Bombay have never deflected him from producing paintings of the highest standard. The colors and textures of his canvases produce the thundering impact of lightning

Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni, art critic

The geography of emotions Adivrekars brush takes wings to recast the landscape of forms - seized intuitive- into the shapes and pattern of a composition on canvas. Or so he says as he struggles to define the unfathomable force behind the green fuse of creativity that breaks the barriers of form to burst into a shaft of red energy or freezes fragments of distant memory into fossilized chillness of grey patch Adivrekar depends largely on his rooted, rural responses to transform elemental reflections of joy and sorrow into firm symbols of shapes and forms to present a landscape of his life. He is honest enough to let the sutures of life and love show through when he feels he must bare his wounds. The landscape of the terrain then becomes the landscape of the body, bruised, seeking some monumental moment. The new and old, the past and present, roll together to weave the vestiges of lingering desires and extinguished hopes in the frenzy of the creative silence. A continued process of elimination of the needless details and distractions for greater subsatnce will undoubtedly take Adivrekar to a stage where the landscape of forms will shine in the resplendence of art. At the moment his personal history comes to us as a physical map of the mind, spelling out the geography of emotions the texture of color and brushwork delineating the contours of plateaus and deserts, the boulders raising, at times, a formidable wall of defence to guard the secrets of the self for further contemplation.

S.V.Vasudev, art critic Bombay, 1987

…The basic components of Adivrekar s paintings are patches of contrasting or harmonious colors of interlocking forms floating medially in the canvas, with margin of flat painted space all around. From a distance the images look like factile playful color splashes. But from a closer range they reveal splendid details of textural and a subtely phrased vocabulary of fresh and vivid colors of varying uses of lines in Devanagari Script to add to the varied textures of the paintings. There are daubs and dashes besides streaks, hatchings and dots dented or in relief which in spite of the flurry of brush strokes create an impression of equanimity and balance. The images often contain hints of figures and objects but even these motifs are only integral part of the design…

Manasij Majumdar, art critic Sept.1996, The Telegraph

Adivrekars painting gives shape to color. Looking at an Adivrekar canvas is like reading Gertude Stein: the word is it's meaning.

Kalpish Ratna, March 1998, The Sunday Observer

… establishing himself as one of the leading abstract artist of date. Thus Adivrekar needs no special introduction, as he is no stranger to the artistic world. Though living in a highly urbanized city the unassuming painter goes back to his roots in Konkan's Sindhudurg every year to draw inspiration. In his earlier years as a painter Adivrekar evolved a unique style of painting, a style which he created from fusion of fold and Egyptian art. Now humans, animals, and birds emerge from the fossilized rocky surfaces interwinged & vibrant with life… Adivrekar s paintings are inward evocation of emotion and objective realization of time and space.

Mukesh Vaidya,art critic