Bravin Lee Programs
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L. C. Armstrong
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L.C. Armstrong's paintings defiantly resist categorization. In this, her third exhibition at Bravin Post Lee, Armstrong has produced paintings depicting flowers and stripes that include her signature "burn line" image. In her last exhibition Armstrong made paintings of sunsets and sunrises. In this exhibition she continues to confront late 20th Century dogma that insists that images of flowers (and sunsets) are so overly wrought with sentimentality that they are not only unusable today but are perhaps indicative of a softness of the head, at best middle brow. Armstrong takes the flower image and torques the color until it results in a diaristic hyper-romantic vision of West Coast biker-chic; California Dreaming meets Maxfield Parrish and The Hudson River School. In short, Frigidaire Realism. The paintings are sealed in highly seductive layers of polyester resin.
The stripe motif, a staple of high minimal art subject matter is as ubiquitously represented as images of flowers. L.C. Armstrong's exhibition presents both on equal footing. In the 1970's, L.C. Armstrong worked in California customizing vans and motorcycles. Here the duality of images posed no problem and in fact made for some very happy campers.
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