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ABOUT THE SCULPTOR....
JANE B. ARMSTRONG, American sculptor, was born in Buffalo, New
York, educated in Middlebury College, Pratt Institute, and the
Art Students League, and turned to sculpture in 1964 following
a career in journalism. Her first one-person show took place
in New York City in 1967. Since then the artist has had numerous
museum, university, and gallery solos in the United States, in-
cluding shows in the Frank Rehn Gallery, New York City, 1971,
1973, 1975 and 1977. In 1976 she had her first show in London
at the Marjorie Parr Gallery--will show again in 1979.
Max Wykes Joyce of The International Tribune said
this about her work: "Jane Armstrong's first English
show consists entirely of animal sculptures. These,
thank heaven, are not the customary confections of
toffee-colored bronze produced by contemporary ani-
maliers, but strong, tough, unsentimental and sensitive
stone carvings, in which the medium and subject are
finely matched."
Ms. Armstrong works mainly in marble from many parts of the world.
Although preferring the direct method of carving introduced to her
by Maestro Jose deCreeft, she also plans many of her ideas in clay.
Her goal in animal sculpture, she states, is to harmonize subject
and stone, line and mass, without losing the special movement or
animal essence which first captured her attention. "The emergence
of a particular mood or personality in the final work," she says,
"is the special magic which makes the hard work worthwhile."
"Aware of the importance of artistic innovation," the sculptor
says, "I remain a person who finds beauty in the ordinary. As
the poet evokes with words, I want to capture the transitory in
a material as strong, honest and solid as stone. Not a pathseeker
by nature, I take comfort in Frost's lines 'The fact is the sweet-
est dream that labor knows'."
After having lived and worked in Vermont for nearly fifteen years,
Ms. Armstrong is moving to a new home and studio near Tryon, N.C.,
next Fall, where she will be nearer the hub of the wheel of her
sculpture show activities which next year alone range from Florida
to Kansas, to Cleveland. Her mid-winter studio will remain in
Delray Beach, Florida.