SG MAG APRIL 2019 MAIN_2
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INTERVIEW WITH JACK ARMSTRONG submitted by<br />
DEREK CULLEY printed in Family Office magazine<br />
ART & MUSEUM summer 2017 edition. Derek Culley<br />
discovered world famous artist ‘DAMIEN HIRST’.<br />
by Derek Culley<br />
Jack Armstrong has been painti g since<br />
he was ve years old. A er arriving in<br />
NYC in 1979,he became friends with<br />
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat &<br />
Keith Haring. In 1984, a er turning<br />
down a solo exhibition with Castelli<br />
Gallery in NYC, Armstrong has<br />
maintained his revolutiona y an -dealer<br />
stance and has never been represented<br />
by a dealer. Between 1994 & 1997;<br />
Armstrong repurchased his early work<br />
and destroyed all painti gs, vowing to<br />
create a new style for Modern /<br />
Contemporary Art. The years 1999 &<br />
2000 witnessed Armstrong founding<br />
“cosmic Extensionalism” revolutioni ing<br />
Modern / Contemporary Art.<br />
Armstrong’s use of extreme colour,<br />
texture and light with words magically<br />
appearing at di erent angles in the<br />
paint, allow viewers to experience the<br />
universal cosmic energy, coexisti g with<br />
Armstrong’s belief In inter-planetary<br />
and mul -dimensional Extensionalism.<br />
This is the foundation of Armstrong’s<br />
revolu onary work. Armstrong’s total<br />
output to date features 100 Cosmic<br />
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