About the Artist

Christopher Armstrong May 27, 1967- July 27, 2019

Chris Armstrong (b. 1967, d. 2019) studied painting and art history in Florence, Italy before receiving his BA from Bucknell University. After graduation, Chris went on to receive his MFA from NYU where he won the school’s MVP award and exhibited at Washington Square East Galleries. His dramatic waterscape paintings convey the essence of the sea–an unpredictable and changing nature, a reflective and illuminated beauty, and the ability to inspire a sense of vastness. Crossing from dark ominous blues and crashing waves to serene sunlit calm in soft tones, his paintings succeed in capturing the graceful movement and luminosity of water.

Armstrong’s work is collected by the Bennington Fine Art Museum, Geisinger Medical Center, Fidelity Investments, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, among others. He is predeceased by his father, esteemed American Landscape painter David Armstrong.

Biography

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017   Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2016   Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2013   Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2012   Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
2010   Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2009   Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
2008   Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
           Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2007   Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2006   Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2005   Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
2004   Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2003   Paris, New York, Kent CT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 ‘Art in Embassies’, Morrison Gallery, CT
Summer Group Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY
Context Art Miami, Gallery Henoch, Miami, FL
Summer Group Show, MM Fine Art, NY
Context Art International, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2017 Summer Group Show, Gallery Henoch New York, NY
  Art Dallas, Gallery Henoch, Dallas, TX
  Winter Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2016   "50 Years a Dealer: George Henoch Shechtman," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2015   ArtMiami: Context, Miami, FL
          "Water Scenes," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2014   "Summer Selections," Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
          "Holiday Group Show," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2013   "Art Southampton," Peter Marcelle Gallery, BridgeHampton, NY
          "The Sea and the Subway," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2012   "Water," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
           "Land, Sea, Sky," Beth Urdang, Boston, MA
2011   Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
          Aqua, Miami, FL
          "American Realism," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
          Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2010   Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
          "Artists Perspectives," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
          "Stop Motion," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
          "Summer," Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2009   Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
           Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
           Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
           Craighead Green Gallery, TX
2008   Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
2007   Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
           Edith Caldwell Gallery, Sausalito, CA
           Penn College, Lancaster, PA
           Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA
2006   Penn College, Lancaster, PA
           Meyer/Munson, Santa Fe, NM
           U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies, Kyrgyzstan Exhibition
2005   Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2003   Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT
2002   Paris, New York, Kent Gallery, CT
2001   Paris, New York, Kent Gallery, CT
1999   B&S Gallery, Williamsport, PA
1997   Boone Gallery, PA
          B&S Gallery, Willamsport, PA
1996   Bennington Art Museum, VT
1995   Rose Gallery, CT
1995   Bennington Art Museum, VT
1993   MVP Exhibition, Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Fidelity Investments
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Wellington Group
Dodge & Cox
Geisinger Hospital Corporation
Bennington Fine Art Museum

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Armstrong at Beth Urdang," ARTNews, November 2013
"Boston Uncommon," Architectural Digest, October 2013
"Portraits of Power, Perception" Boston Globe, September 2009
"Christopher Armstrong Down By the Sea" Bucknell University Magazine, Spring 2009 Issue, Alumni Profile, p. 53
"Conflating Austerities" Boston Globe, March, 2007
"Art in Embassies" AIR Magazine, September, 2006
"PKNY Opens One Man Show" Kent G.T.D, May 2003
"Water Water Everywhere" U.S. Art Magazine, May 1998

EDUCATION

1991-93   M.F.A. New York University
1988   S.A.C.I. Studio Art Centers International Florence, Italy
1985-89   B.A. Bucknell University
1981-85   The Taft School