August 4, 1994, 6:35 AM

Armstrong succeeds because she carefully balances the universal and the personal and embraces the beauty, the grandeur, the glossy appeal, the ominous vacancy, the banal horrors and the self-inflicted contradictions of American Life. Her paintings, executed in acrylics and bomb fuse and that thick gleaming coat of resin, seem like impeccably preserved snapshots of a long journey through a strange but familiar land.
- Ferdinand Protzman, Washington Post.