“Armstrong's vision is direct, purposeful but not laconic; A quietly expansive & joyful interpretation of an American landscape that veers between the representational and the less so.”
-Lilly Wei

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Reviews of Martha Armstrong's paintings
Gross McCleaf gallery show, Philadelphia

Broad Street Review
'Martha Armstrong at Gross McCleaf'
by Andrew Mangravite
March 7, 2009. Martha Armstrong's new exhibition at Gross McCleaf shows where she has been and where she is going- namely, from Expressionism to abstraction and back again. Her journey offers a nice emotional contrast to the drier, more intellectual vision of Cézanne. read more

Martha Armstrong retrospective at Gross McCleaf
'Canvases project personality'
by Victoria Donohue for the Inquirer
March 6, 2009. Anything but pompous, Martha Armstrong's art offers direct meaning without sacrificing visual sophistication. Armstrong is an image-maker best known for her landscape and cityscape paintings and an occasional still life. Such work is the major theme dominating the 46 year retrospective of her paintings and drawings, "Up to Now", at Gross McCleaf. read more