Bill Armstrong: All A Blur: Pictures from the Infinity Series

Bill Armstrong’s new monograph All a Blur presents 25 years of labor from his luminous Infinity sequence. The e book brings collectively twenty-one distinct portfolios that intertwine pictures, portray, and collage, tracing Armstrong’s ongoing exploration of notion and transformation. Spanning themes from figuration to abstraction, every re-photographed picture has been manipulated and reworked till the unique topic dissolves into one thing totally new. These radiant photographs evoke a liminal house between waking and sleep, simply out of attain, mysterious but deeply acquainted.

Throughout his work, Armstrong weaves collectively themes from historical past, philosophy, and spirituality. Series comparable to Darshan and Mandala function meditations in their very own proper, embodying a contemplative follow the place coloration and emotion take priority, inviting viewers right into a state of reflection and stillness.

All a Blur is each a visible and philosophical journey by means of Armstrong’s decades-long investigation into the boundaries of seeing. The work resonates with the legacies of Color Field portray, whereas remaining rooted within the photographic custom. Through his deliberate distortion of kind, Armstrong reminds us that magnificence lies not in readability or illustration, however within the act of seeing itself.

To see extra of Armstrong’s work please go to:

Instagram: @billarmstrongphoto

Web: www.billarmstrongphotography.com

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Over the final 25 years, Bill Armstrong has pioneered the distinctive strategy of blurring appropriated photographs—a medium on the intersection of pictures, portray and collage. All a Blur presents some 300 pulsating coloration photographs that provide alternate visions of historical past, faith and philosophy. Armstrong’s images vary from mysterious falling figures sourced from the Renaissance to vibrating coloration spheres akin to Buddhist mandalas. He transforms these into hypnotic visible objects in a quantity that’s each aesthetically rewarding and a possible pathway to heightened consciousness.

—Lyle Rexer

Bill Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed tremendous artwork photographer primarily based in New York. His work is represented by Clamp in New York, Dolby Chadwick in San Francisco, Hackelbury Fine Art in London and Alessia Paladini Gallery in Milan. His Infinity sequence has been exhibited in over 30 solo and 100 group exhibitions over the previous 25 years.

Mr. Armstrong’s Sistine Gestures, Last Judgment is a everlasting set up within the Vatican Museums in Rome. His work is in lots of museum collections together with the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Getty Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. His images have been revealed in additional than 16 books on pictures, together with the quilt of Lyle Rexer’s Edge of Vision, The Rise of Abstraction in Photography.  Mr. Armstrong is on the college of the International Center of Photography. He was on the college of the School of Visual Arts from 2003-2022.