Original Article: Grit and Grace
November 12th, 2009
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Author: Work by Estes, McIntire, and Ledbetter.
by Carol Knowles
For his David Lusk exhibition “From Peace Mountain,” Don Estes takes birch plywood, vinyl spackling, paint, plaster, and graphite and creates artworks that evoke Barnett Newman’s “zips,” Mark Rothko’s luminous colors, Kasimir Malevich’s blinding whites, and Claude Monet’s Impressionism synthesized with such originality that the end result is unequivocally Estes. Each of the seven horizontal bands that make up Peace Mounain 6 is a work of art unto itself. The bottom of the painting, for example, is a haunting piece…
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