“I have normally been aggressive,” Alvin Armstrong explained to us this previous Summer time. “I was not the speediest or the strongest, but I could normally compete with the greatest due to the fact my mother nature has generally been extreme. Even if I was clueless, I understood that I would do the job like a dog right until there was enhancement. It was like sporting blinders, concentrating on what was in advance and relocating ahead. When I did something and was dissatisfied with it, I didn’t keep there—I just labored at it yet again till I was happy.”
Anna Zorina Gallery is happy to present It Goes to Show, Alvin Armstrong’s next solo exhibition with the gallery. The show functions the artist’s newest series of paintings that depict a dear friend, Miles, in candid poses of dance overall performance. Collectively they use their chosen media to convey a viscerally strong, personal narrative.
The portray medium sets the stage for Armstrong and Miles to be part of in the move of storytelling, equally come to be immersed in conveying uncooked, psychological depth through a prosperous vocabulary of system movement and form. They both of those have interaction their media with spectacular, fluid and intuitive gestures. Armstrong fast technique with dripping paint, and clear layers of brushstrokes insinuate the speedily shifting flexes of muscle within just the dynamic poses. The unfastened brushwork and transparent layers of coloration are offset by Miles’ definitive intention and deep focus, the reiteration of his determine emphasizes the depth of the dancer’s emphasis and push. The limited concentrate on the determine inside the confined space of the composition magnifies the tension of vulnerability and honesty. In the titular painting, “It Goes To Display” the topic makes direct eye speak to. Armstrong casts Miles with a person eye powerfully gazing back at the viewer, his dance supplies a protect guarding the intimacy of his artwork.
