Martha Armstrong: New Work

The Vermont woods, Arizona deserts, and Rhode Island shoreline radiate with Martha Armstrong’s distinctive verve in her latest solo exhibition at Bowery Gallery. Painting from observation, Armstrong infuses her seascapes with the salt air, sand, and sweep of the tide. Her expansive Vermont paintings pulse with shifting light and shade, forests rendered as present, growing, fermenting. In her Tucson deserts, her color palette captures the hardness and softness of the region’s remarkable light, with jagged dark mountains, iron-green cactus, and vast, shimmering open spaces.