Bill Armstrong :: Extreme Blur
In 1996, artist Bill Armstrong began photographing collages found on the streets of the city that were created by the chance juxtaposition of torn posters on temporary construction walls. Armstrong exhibited his 'Accidental Portraits' at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University and at the Uma Gallery in New York the following year. It was about this time, however, that the artist's approach to image-making began to shift. more...
Apparition :: Bill Armstrong
10 pages of absorbing, ghostly photographs created by artist Bill Armstrong with commentary from curator Brian Clamp.
The artist puts it succinctly himself - "The nature of visual perception intrigues me: how the eye continually tries to resolve these images, but is unable to do so, and how that is unsettling. And I am drawn to the idea that we can believe something is real, while at the same time knowing it is illusory; that the experience of visual confusion, when the psyche is momentarily derailed, is what frees us to respond emotionally."more...