Sara Garden Armstrong

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Sara Garden Armstrong
EducationMaster of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; Master of Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Known forMulti-media artist
Stylesculptures, paintings, drawings; artist's books, multimedia artworks involving computers sound and light, permanent installations in atrium spaces.
Website https://www.saragardenarmstrong.net

Sara Garden Armstrong is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Armstrong creates sculptures, paintings, drawings (from miniature to wall size), artist's books, multimedia artworks involving computers sound and light, and constructs permanent installations in atrium spaces. Armstrong received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and her Master of Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Armstrong also studied art at New York University and with the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario in Yeovil, England while attending UAB. She was an educator for several years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, later she moved to New York City in 1981.

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Armstrong's early period with the exploration of sound had exhibitions at the Visual Arts Gallery at UAB and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama. Her first exhibition in New York City was at PS1 in 1982, "'the Sound Corridor'" curated by William Hellermen. This installation began her multimedia series of work entitled "'Airplayer'" which ended in 1992 at the CB's 313 Gallery and Bar (next door to CBGB) on the Bowery with "'Airplayer XIV'" – both installations utilized mechanisms for movement and sound.

Armstrong's work has been published extensively. Among the publications are Southern Accents, [1] "'The New Yorker,'" [2] "'The New York Art World,'" [3] "'Birmingham Magazine,'" [4] "'Port Folio Weekly,'" [5] "'Seattle Post-Intelligencer'" [6] and "'The New York Times'". [7]

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Armstrong's work is included in collections nationally and internationally among them Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK, MoMA [12] [13] [ failed verification ] in New York City, WAAND "Women Artists Archives National Directory, Ira Silverberg Papers, Sun and Moon Press Archive, Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry

Notes and references

  1. Southern Accents, May/June 1987, Volume Ten, Number Three
  2. "Galleries Downtown", The New Yorker, June 21 & 28, 1999 (Gibson Gallery)
  3. Macinnis, Michael, 'The New York Art World, M,' June/August 1999 (Gibson Gallery)
  4. Reeves, Penelope, Birmingham, Volume 42, Number 2- Feb. 2002, page 99
  5. Dorsey, Catherine, 'Port Folio Weekly,' Virginia Beach, Oct. 1997
  6. Josslin, Victoria, "Bellevue Art Museum's Forces exhibit exerts a mostly magical pull", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Friday, February 13, 1998
  7. Braff, Phyllis, "Casting a Spell, From Lasers and Video to Light and Shadows", The New York Times, Sunday, October 22, 1995, p. C 24.
  8. Galleries Downtown", The New Yorker, June 21 & 28, 1999
  9. Macinnis, Michael, The New York Art World, M, June/August 1999
  10. Chambers, Karen S., Internet ArtResources, July 1999
  11. Schedler Minchin Fine Art – "Contour: The Definitive Line" Archived March 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  12. Museum of Modern Art, New York City
  13. "Sara Garden Armstrong | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved May 22, 2019.

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