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Welcome to the first Insight Sunday of the spring, Bill Armstrong! The acclaimed photographer invites you to join him as he discusses the process behind his book All A Blur: Photographs from the Infinity Series. In addition to speaking about his creative process, Armstrong will also lean-in to the process of editing and photo selection that goes into making a photography book – both highly intuitive processes to which the artist brings insight and wisdom. Following the discussion there will be a Q&A
An extensive body of work that has been ongoing since 1997, The Infinity Series brings together compositions Armstrong has made through a unique process of photographing found images with a camera’s focusing ring set at infinity, rendering a completely new image that is extremely out of focus. Armstrong creates new worlds, hovering between real and fantasy, where things are just beyond our grasp. In this world, the viewer is unable to fully resolve the image. Armstrong believes that the “psyche momentarily derailed” by this is what frees the viewer to respond emotionally.
BILL ARMSTRONG
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Bill Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer 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 series has been exhibited in over 30 solo and 100 group exhibitions over the past 25 years.
Mr. Armstrong’s Sistine Gestures, Last Judgement is a permanent installation in the Vatican Museums at the foot of the stairs to the Sistine Chapel. Currently the work is on loan to the Casa Buonarroti in Florence for the exhibition La Sistina di Michelangolo. Un’ icona multimediale. As well as the Vatican his work is in many museum collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Barbara Musuem of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. His photographs have been published in more than 16 books on photography, including the cover of Lye Rexer’s Edge of Vision, The Rise of Abstraction in Photography. Mr. Armstrong is on the faculty of International Cetner of Photography. He was on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts from 2003-2022. His website is billarmstrongphotography.com and his work can be found on Instagram at #billarmstrongphoto.