Reginald Armstrong

While We Here is a digital exhibition of all new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Reginald Armstrong. Created for UTA Artist Space, this presentation highlights seven group portraits and two still lifes painted in the artist’s signature figurative style.

Across nine paintings, Reginald Armstrong explores family, community, and memory by highlighting scenes of familial intimacy and the spaces they occur within. Created in isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, these works offer a reflection on nostalgia, solitude, and connection—all cast within a warmly vibrant palate. 

“During the pandemic the idea of having images with groups of people was almost a way of having company for me,” says Reginald Armstrong. “We became so deprived of the feeling of being around the people we take for granted from seeing them so often… In this exhibition I wanted to create warm and home feeling spaces with a focus on multiple figuration and mostly interior spaces. I wanted to create a timeless point of view for memories stored in all of us with loved ones and friends in social gatherings.”