Monthly Archives: February 2009

first painting of 09

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: February 23, 2009
during one art-night awhile back, my friend jan (john) was looking through my sketch book picking out the pages he liked best.  among a couple others he chose this as one of the drawings he liked: he said it reminded him of joan miro. i suppose i can see the connection.  although that wasn’t the [...]
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new studio

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: February 23, 2009
on february 1st i, along with my gal trista, moved into a new art sudio. circumstances had become such that i could no longer work at my old studio of 3 years because of the new medium i’m using (spray paint). it was a little sad to leave my old space. a [...]
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new york trip 2009

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: February 23, 2009
in late january i made my third trek to the mecca.  my mecca at least.  the holy land of decoscrapers, nyc.  official order of business being the robert irwin opening of “red drawing, white drawing, black painting” at the 22nd street pacewildenstein gallery.  unofficial business for the trip…well, just to be in [...]
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