 commissioned work 'coral field' installed "Chris Armstrong paints with the grace and confidence of considerable training and well-distilled purpose. Armstrong's pictures are most agreeable to look at, but he has, in addition, both a conscience and a nervously weird eye on the world and its people. The who and where that he offers are isolated, quietly perilous, and subconsciously full of warning. They are also alive and ever so slightly promising of connection and hope. Armstrong has a unique and dangerously honest vision, and he renders it with disarming precision."
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Chris 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. He currently lives in Gloucester, Mass. and presides over North Mountain Press; a fine art publishing company specializing in the work of his late father, American realist David Armstrong.
