"Amaryllis Minerva" - L.C. Armstrong

L.C. Armstrong is an American painter and sculptor who was born in 1954 in Humboldt, Tennessee, and grew up in the American South. In 1963 her family moved to Venice, California, where she trained in her father’s neon sign business. In Southern California, Armstrong painted signs, airbrushed vans and customized cars and airplanes to pay tuition to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, where she received her B.F.A. in Illustration in 1981.

Armstrong moved to New York City after graduation and worked in the early 1980s as an illustrator for New York Magazine, Money Magazine, Coca Cola, Budweiser, Sony, and Macy’s among others. But the desire to be a fine artist drew her back to San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a B.F.A. in 1987.