Martha Armstrong "Recent Paintings"

Bowery Gallery

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Martha Armstrong has had many one-person and group shows in the United States and Italy. She has received grants from Smith College, a residency at Hollins University, and at the Camargo Foundation in France, and was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

She has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute, Indiana University, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Dartmouth, and Haverford Colleges, and now is a graduate critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In 2003 Alexi Worth wrote in The New Yorker "Armstrong's high, sharp energy is Yankee Fauvism at its best." Lance Esplund, in Art in America, wrote in 2004, "I enjoy the all-out belting of the melody which is full of honesty and heart." In 2009 Victoria Donohue wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "In these works it's still possible to believe that aesthetic presence might have some impact on the hard reality of everyday existence",and in 2011, she wrote: " her landscapes " have a simplicity and power; their intensity of focus on feeling and seasonal changes (are) ambitious exercises in reconciling geometry and gesture…"

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from September 04, 2012 to September 29, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 17:00 to 20:00

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