Entrance is pleased to present “Entrance”, a new body of work by Jackson Maximo Armstrong, opening 6-9 pm, Thursday, April 23, 2026 in the gallery's lower level.
This presentation runs concurrently with an installation and new work by Zachary Armstrong, Jackson's father, in our ground level gallery.
Coming from a family of artists, including his grandfather, father, and uncle, Armstrong’s visual sensibility formed early in proximity to painting. Armstrong’s work draws influence from this lineage.The abstract landscape paintings of his uncle, which he notes as being reminiscent of Gerhard Richter, and his father’s singular practice, which doesn’t shy away from risk taking and experimentation, shaped Armstrong’s orientation toward surface, material, and improvisation from an early age.
Armstrong's formal encounter with textiles came through hands-on work in the fashion industry; from there he began building a personal collection of fabrics, which eventually evolved into source material for his abstractions. In 2023, he began a series of two-dimensional textile prints central to this exhibition: collected fabrics were scanned and burned onto silkscreens, then printed onto prepared ground. By divorcing textiles from their inherent function and body, Armstrong’s work flattens fabric into a new pictorial object, preserving only its patterning and texture.
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