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Artist Bill Armstrong’s Been Painting Without His Glasses Again

Bill Armstrong’s Untitled #1018 (2006).Image courtesy of the artist and CLAMPART, New York.

The curves may suggest blurred and reworked Internet porn à la Thomas Ruff, but artist Bill Armstrong gets his source material from Renaissance master drawings. Mary Magdalene, perhaps? His solo show at Chelsea’s ClampArt is up through mid-February. —Rachel Wolff