The Andy Warhol Museum’s 30th Anniversary Auction

Zachary Armstrong (b. 1984) lives and works in Dayton, Ohio. Employing encaustic as his signature painting medium, Armstrong’s practice probes at different concepts of abstraction through the use of representational imagery. His work is driven by a material curiosity that is bound up in his desire to exercise every possibility of the rich, tactile qualities achieved when hot wax and pigments are worked together. Armstrong’s ritualistic repetition of a visual lexicon– recurrent symbols and motifs uniquely his own– are rooted in recollections of childhood and family, of people and places, of rural Midwest Americana. These are intermixed with his studies of natural history and a deep archive of art historical references.

Solo exhibitions include Vito Schnabel Gallery, New York, NY; GNYP Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; Tilton Gallery, New York, NY; Faurschou Foundation, New York, NY/Beijing, China; The Contemporary, Dayton, OH; Carl Kostyál, London, UK; GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Sabsay, Copenhagen, Denmark; Melser/Feuer, New York, NY; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH.