DAVID ARMSTRONG (20th Century) "Spring Sun" Modern Western country Still Life Numbered 340 of 950 Large Size: 36 in x 30 in Framed in Glass Oak Wood Frame. Signed and Numbered Email with any questions....thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DAVID ARMSTRONG (20th Century): David Armstrong (1954 Arlington, Massachusetts ? 2014 Los Angeles) attends, in 1974, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Boston) intending to paint. He turns to photography, resulting in what later would be coined ?The Boston School? of photography alongside Nan Goldin, Phillip-Lorca diCorcia, Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson, Taboo!, Gail Thacker and others. In 1977, Armstrong moves to New York City and has his first exhibition at Hudson Gallery, together with Nan Goldin. He shoots the production stills for Eric Mitchell's film Underground U.S.A (1980), starring Patti Astor, Rene Ricard, Jackie Curtis and Jedd Garet. In 1981, he is part of New York/New Wave at P.S.1, an extensive group exhibition featuring artists, poets, graffiti artists, photographers, and No Wave musicians (curated by Eric Mitchell). In 1983 his ex-partner Kevin McPhee dies of AIDS. In 1989 Armstrong is part of the influential exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing at Artists Space in New York, curated by Nan Goldin. In 1992, he moves to Berlin, where Nan Goldin is guest of the DAAD Residency. In the 1990s, Armstrong's work is shown in several exhibitions, at, among others, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, Galerie Bruno Brunnet, Berlin, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Whitney Biennal, New York, Galerie Scalo Zürich and New York, Yvon Lambert, Paris, ICA Boston, Boston and Judy Goldman Fine Art, Boston. He finds in Walter Keller of Scalo Verlag Zürich an important supporter who publishes three of his books: A Double Life. David Armstrong / Nan Goldin (1994), The Silver Cord(1997) and All Day Every Day (2002), edited by the Zürich film historian Martin Jaeggi. After his death in 2014, the Estate of David Armstrong is established and his work is inventoried by Colleen Doyle and Elizabeth Whitcomb together with Tess Cetin, Nicole Skibola and Linnea Vedder. Armstrong first gained prominence in the 1980s with his intimate black and white portraits of young men. He was often referred to as part of a group of artists and photographers called the ?Boston School?, who included acclaimed photographer Nan Goldin, who had been a friend of Armstrong?s since the age of 14. Together the group explored the world of social outsiders from the inside, capturing drug addicts, transvestites, fashion models and artists as subjects of their work. In the 1990s, Armstrong moved away from the portraiture work and began to photograph cityscapes and landscapes in colour and very soft focus. Trees, roads and street lights were reduced to a mottled blur to create sensual and calming scenes. It was this body of work that was the basis for the series of Eyestorm editions published with Armstrong in 2000. David Armstrong was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb, on May 24, 1954. He graduated from the Satya Community School, an alternative high school in Cambridge, Mass. , where he met Nan Goldin. In the mid 1970s after attending the Museum School in Boston, he moved to New York, where he studied art at Cooper Union and he and Goldin shared an apartment. In 1983, Armstrong returned to the Boston area to teach art and resume his studies. He earned a bachelor?s degree in fine arts from Tufts University in 1988 and lived in Europe for several years before returning to New York in 1997. The Whitney Museum in New York holds a number of Armstrong?s photographs in their permanent collection and his work was included in their 1995 Biennial. He has exhibited both in the US and internationally and his photographs have appeared in many fashion magazines such as Vogue, Arena Homme+, and GQ. Advertising campaigns have included those for Kenneth Cole, Burberry and Puma. Books include ?The Silver Cord? (1997); ?All Day Every Day? (2002); and ?615 Jefferson Avenue? (2011); the title of the latter the address of his home and studio in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York. Armstrong died in October 2014 in Los Angeles at the young age of 60. --- Email or Text any Questions.....thank you. Due to special packing necessities for framed art items, shipping times may take a few days longer depending on the item and shipping destination location. Email through for more information.