On Friday, I went to Don Estes' show at the David Lusk Gallery. I had really enjoyed his work when the class did a studio visit with him. The work at the show was, as I had expected, the rest of the series of paintings we had seen during the visit.
There were two or three larger scale works, three or four medium works and about eight smaller works. The smaller works and the larger works seemed stronger than the medium sized works. It seemed like they were done more out of a need for something medium sized than anything else. That said, they were great paintings, just not as effective as the others.
The paintings have a great mix of texture ranging from raw unprimed canvas and washes to heavily impastoed oil paint. The paintings seemed to have more textural elements added to it.
The paintings use elements of landscape and map based imagery to create abstractions
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