SG MAG MAR 2018 P1
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TULE<strong>MAG</strong>IC<br />
“Seems to me, what we collect in<br />
art should reflect the frivolous<br />
side of ourselves along with the<br />
more pensive. I find both, to my<br />
surprise, in Jack Armstrong’s<br />
work. His Paintings’ stunning<br />
richness of hue, before we knew<br />
computer graphics would be able<br />
to mimic it ever in our lifetime,<br />
typified our late-cold-war-era<br />
brashness. His casually hiding his<br />
own name in plain sight, and hiding<br />
some little-understood names of<br />
other things in plain sight - - it’s<br />
a playful permissiveness that’s<br />
just bulls-eye on that brashness.<br />
And in my painting, titled<br />
“Tulemagic,” I find a glimpse of it<br />
that requires a gaze, again and<br />
yet again. I enjoy how it always<br />
provokes friends’ reactions and<br />
for my own part, I even recorded<br />
a song about it.<br />
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