L.C. Armstrong

General

  • The artist lives and works in New York, New York.

  • 1954Born in Humboldt, Tennessee

  • 1982BFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

  • 1987BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

Awards

  • 1991The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, United States

Biennials

  • 1998The 45th Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998, Washington, D.C., United States

  • 1993The 9th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  • 199142nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Washington, D.C., United States

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2009L.C. Armstrong: Flowerscapes, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2008 - 2009L.C. Armstrong: The Paradise Triptychs, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, United States.

  • 2007L.C. Armstrong: New Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2005L.C. Armstrong - Paintings, Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • 2003 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States.

  • 2001L.C. Armstrong: New Paintings, Postmasters Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2000 Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • 2000 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States.

  • 1999 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, United States.

  • 1999 Postmasters Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1998L.C. Armstrong. Mall Flowers, Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • 1998L.C. Armstrong: Paintings, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, United States.

  • 1997 Bravin Post Lee, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1997 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States.

  • 1995Making and Unmaking, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Museum, Tampa, Florida, United States.

  • 1994 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, United States.

  • 1994 Bravin Post Lee, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1994 Phillippe Rizzo Gallery, Paris, France.

  • 1993 John Post Lee Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1993 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States.

  • 1992 Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany.

  • 1992 White Columns, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1991 Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany.

Group Exhibitions

  • 2009Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2009Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2009Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York , New York , United States.

  • 2009Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2008Art Basel Miami Beach, X, Miami, Florida, United States.

  • 2008Blumen/Flowers, Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • 2008Modern Love: Gifts to the Collection from Heather and Tony Podesta, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States.

  • 2008Summer Show, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2008Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2008Transfigure, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

  • 2007Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2007Wit and Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2006Garden Paradise, Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2006Revising Arcadia, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, United States.

  • 2005Artistic Entropy, Weiss Pollock, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2005Group Show, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2005Image of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

  • 2005 - 2006POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

  • 2004Flower Power, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille, France.

  • 2004Open House, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

  • 2003After Matisse-Picasso, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, United States.

  • 2003Cologne Art Fair, Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • 2002Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

  • 2001Between Earth and Heaven, PMMK Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Ostende, Belgium.

  • 2001Burn: Artists Play With Fire, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, United States

  • 2001Fleurs du Mal, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Center, Santa Barbara, California, United States.

  • 2000Full Serve, 547 W. 27th Street, New York, New York, United States.

  • 2000Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States.

  • 2000Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, United States.

  • 2000Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

  • 1999Art Frankfurt, Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • 1998Cornucopia, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1996Bild verkundt: gesehen, Provinzial, Düsseldorf, Germany.

  • 1996Group Show, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States.

  • 1996Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie/Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.

  • 1994Jet Lag, Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • 1994Laissez-parlez les petits papiers, Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France.

  • 1994Psychic Borders, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

  • 19937 Rooms 7 Shows, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, United States.

  • 1993A Lure, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States.

  • 1993Reverberations: L.C. Armstrong, Michele Blondel, Suzan Etkin and Lisa Hoke, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States.

  • 1993Standards, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany.

  • 1993The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, a modest proposal, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France.

  • 1993The Young Americans, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany.

  • 1992Letter S Road, Omi International Arts Center, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1992Standards, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany.

  • 1992Technorama, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1992Transparency and Shape, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1991From Sculpture, BACA/Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

  • 1991Gulliver’s Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany.

  • 1991Home for June, Home for Contemporary Theater and Art, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1991Prospectus, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1990Group Show, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany.

  • 1990Group Show, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

  • 1989Group Show, American Fine Arts Co., New York, New York, United States.

Public Collections

  • ABN-AMRO Bank N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, United States

  • Fidelity Mutual Funds, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Harvard Business School, The Schwartz Art Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States

  • Morris Multimedia, Savannah, Georgia, United States

  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States

  • Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  • Sony Corporation, New York, New York, United States

  • The Body Shop, Littlehampton, West Sussex, England

  • The Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States

  • The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States

  • Wellington Management, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Private Collections

  • Neuberger Berman, New York, New York, United States

Catalogues and Monographs

  • 1992Bond, Anthony D. The Boundary Rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney, 15 December 1992 - 14 March 1993. Sydney: Biennale of Sydney.

Bibliography

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  • 2009McKinnon, E. Luanne. Cirque du Paradis.” L.C. Armstrong: flowerscapes. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 2009

  • 2008Anonymous. "Lighting a Fuse to Forge a New Way Forward." The Washington Post, August 24, 2008

  • 2008Bishop, Philip E. "Armstrong creates troubling paradise marked by landscape of fantasy." Orlando Sentinel, November 09, 2008

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  • 2008McKinnon, E. Luanne. “L.C. Armstrong and the Language of Flowers.” L.C. Armstrong: The Paradise Triptychs. Winter Park: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 2008

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  • 2007Herrup, Katharine. "Two Second Careers, One Focus: Collecting Art." The New York Sun, August 02, 2007, p. 11

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  • 2005Pagel, David and Terri Sultan. Populence. Houston: Blaffer Gallery, The University of Houston, 2005

  • 2005Slesin, Suzanne. "Art Lovers." O At Home Magazine, December 01, 2005

  • 2004Shaw-Eagle , Joanna. "Fusing Beauty with Danger: Armstrong’s Intense Vision." The Washington Times, January 17, 2004

  • 2003Kim, Seung-duk, et al. Flower Power. France: Les presses du réel/janvier/Fage éditions, 2003

  • 2002Anonymous. "Verbloemde omineuze symboliek." kM, October 01, 2002

  • 2002Anonymous. "Young Americans: L.C. Armstrong on the Hudson River School." Tate: The Art Magazine, April 01, 2002

  • 2002Rossi, Michael Paul. "Fusing Paradise." Smock Magazine, Vol. 2, No.1, December 01, 2002

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  • 2001Helander, Bruce. "Burning Down the House." Palm Beach & The Naples Times, January 01, 2001

  • 2001Homes, A.M. and Tara McDonnell. Burn: Artists Play with Fire. West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2001

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  • 2001Schudel, Matt. "Fire Works: Artists prove they’ve got talent to burn in pieces on display at the Norton Museum." Sun-Sentinel, South Florida, April 22, 2001

  • 2001Sheets, Hilarie M. "Reinventing the Landscape." ARTnews, March 01, 2001, pp. 128-133

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  • 2000Bronwasser, Sacha. "Die Biënnale, daar zap je toch een beetje langs. Conservator Jaap Guldemond kiest wie naar Venetië gaat. ‘Het begint bij mij altijd bij de kunstenaar’." de Volkskrant, September 23, 2000

  • 2000den Hartog Jager, Hans. "Het paradijs is ongenietbaar: Trippy landschappen in Eindhoven." NRC Handelsblad - supplement, September 29, 2000

  • 2000Geerling, Let. "Geschilderde natuurbeelden." Metropolis M, Nummer 6, January 01, 2000

  • 2000Hayt, Elizabeth. "Nature Painting that Looks Unnatural." The New York Times, October 15, 2000

  • 2000Hayt, Elizabeth. "Style Directive for 2000: Make It Extravagant." The New York Times, January 02, 2000

  • 2000Kattenberg, Peter. "Kunstmatige schilderkunst. Beeldende kunst Visionaire landschappen in het Van Abbemuseum." Financieele Dagblad, October 14, 2000

  • 2000Pontzen, Rutger. "De samenzwering van de schilders." VN, October 07, 2000

  • 2000Protzman, Ferdinand. "Landscapes that Burn into the Imagination." The Washington Post, April 27, 2000

  • 2000Spaninks, Angelique. "Hedendaagse hallucinaties. ‘Twisted’, verknipte visies op stad en land in de hedendaagse schilderkunst." Eindhovens Dagblad, September 28, 2000

  • 2000Spijkerman, Sandra. "Een versameling bijzondere landschappen." Trouw, November 01, 2000, p. 17

  • 2000Steinner, Flora. "De tijdgeest betrapt." Algemeen Dagblad, September 26, 2000

  • 2000van de Velde, Paola. "Romantiek vermengd met Walt Disney." Telegraaf, April 10, 2000

  • 2000Van Neerven, Gabriël. "Fotografische landschappen in het Van Abbe." X, November 06, 2000

  • 2000Verstraten, Meggie. ". “‘Verdraaide’ Landschappen.” Vereniging Vrienden Stedelijk van Abbemuseum." JRG. 6, NR. 2, pp. 4-6

  • 2000Volk, Gregory. "L.C. Armstrong at Postmasters." Art in America, April 01, 2000

  • 2000Ziolkowski, Thad. "L.C. Armstrong Review." Artforum, March 01, 2000

  • 1999Anonymous. "Gallery Crawl." Flatiron Magazine, December 01, 1999

  • 1999Anonymous. "L.C. Armstrong at Postmasters." New York Contemporary Art Report, November 01, 1999

  • 1999Damianovic, Maia. “Wild & Weird.” L.C. Armstrong: New Paintings. New York: Postmasters Gallery, 1999

  • 1999Levin, Kim. "L.C. Armstrong." The Village Voice, December 14, 1999

  • 1999Mahoney, Robert. "L.C. Armstrong." TimeOut Magazine, December 09, 1999

  • 1999Nahas, Domenique. "L.C. Armstrong." Review, December 01, 1999

  • 1999Newhall, Edith. "Talent." New York Magazine - Cue Magazine (supplement), December 13, 1999

  • 1999Pagel, David. "Flowers on a Fuse." Los Angeles Times, May 07, 1999

  • 1998Volk, Gregory. “L.C. Armstrong’s Floral Paintings.” L.C. Armstrong. Mall Flowers. Frankfurt: Galerie Hübner, 1998

  • 1994Schwabsky, Barry. "L.C. Armstrong: Written on the Body." Art Press, July 01, 1994

  • 1992Anonymous. "L. C. Armstrong at Sophia Ungers." Koln Express, October 01, 1992

  • 1992Eickhoff, Beate. "Anzeiger." Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, November 05, 1992

  • 1992French, Christopher. “Clear Contradictions.” in Transparency and Shape. New York: Elga Wimmer Gallery, 1992

  • 1992Hirsch, Faye. "Written on the Wind." Tema Celeste, September 01, 1992

  • 1992Smolik, Noemi. "Standards." Flash Art, October 01, 1992

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