“I have usually been competitive,” Alvin Armstrong instructed us this previous Summer time. “I wasn’t the fastest or the strongest, but I could always compete with the finest for the reason that my nature has constantly been rigorous. Even if I was clueless, I understood that I would function like a puppy until finally there was improvement. It was like donning blinders, focusing on what was ahead and moving forward. When I did anything and was dissatisfied with it, I did not stay there—I just labored at it once more right until I was satisfied.”
Anna Zorina Gallery is pleased to present It Goes to Demonstrate, Alvin Armstrong’s next solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibit characteristics the artist’s hottest series of paintings that depict a pricey mate, Miles, in candid poses of dance efficiency. With each other they use their chosen media to express a viscerally highly effective, personal narrative.
The painting medium sets the stage for Armstrong and Miles to sign up for in the move of storytelling, each turn out to be immersed in conveying raw, emotional depth by way of a loaded vocabulary of body motion and form. They the two interact their media with extraordinary, fluid and intuitive gestures. Armstrong speedy technique with dripping paint, and transparent layers of brushstrokes insinuate the quickly shifting flexes of muscle mass in just the dynamic poses. The free brushwork and transparent levels of shade are offset by Miles’ definitive intention and deep focus, the reiteration of his figure emphasizes the intensity of the dancer’s concentrate and drive. The limited concentrate on the figure within just the confined room of the composition magnifies the tension of vulnerability and honesty. In the titular painting, “It Goes To Clearly show” the matter helps make direct eye get in touch with. Armstrong casts Miles with 1 eye powerfully gazing back at the viewer, his dance delivers a protect defending the intimacy of his art.