Jackson Maximo Armstrong
“Entrance”

April 23 – June 6, 2026
48 Ludlow St, New York, Lower Level Gallery

Entrance is pleased to present “Entrance”, a new body of work by Jackson Maximo Armstrong, on view beginning April 23, 2026 in the gallery's lower level. The presentation runs concurrently with an installation and new work by Zachary Armstrong, Jackson's father, on the 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.

Each panel starts on muslin or canvas. Most receive an initial coat of white paint before being sanded to a uniform, smooth surface, though at times Armstrong experiments with a deliberate rough texture. From there the process turns improvisational. He builds in multiple screenprinted layers, often printing wet on wet, colors bleeding before either layer sets. Freshly printed panels occasionally go directly onto a hot press, the heat becoming a tool to shift the color palette mid-process. Some works receive three passes of a single screen; others accumulate eight or more before Armstrong paints over the surface entirely and begins again. 

The approximately 72 small works in the exhibition are intended to create a continuous line across the lower level gallery, individual decisions accruing into a single extended field. 

Jackson Maximo Armstrong (b. 2003, Dayton, OH) lives and works in Dayton, Ohio. Armstrong’s primary medium is screenprinting, which he began using in 2020, making and selling t-shirts and clothing under the brand name Gugani, which quickly evolved into his practice of pictorial, textile-derived, screenprinted paintings. His work takes advantage of the materiality and flexibility of the medium; often pushing the ink and muslin through rigorous processes. Armstrong presented his first solo exhibition, Gander, at Capsule Gallery, Dayton, OH in 2024. “Entrance” will be his debut solo exhibition in New York. 

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