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Merion Estes was born on 5 September, 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, is an American painter (born 1938). Discover Merion Estes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 5 September 1938
Birthday 5 September
Birthplace Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Nationality United States

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1938

Merion Estes (born Salt Lake City, Utah on September 5, 1938) is a Los Angeles-based painter.

She earned a B.F.A. at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, and an M.F.A. at the University of Colorado, in Boulder.

Estes was raised in San Diego from the age of four.

1970

From the 1970s through the 1980s, Estes was a pioneer in the Pattern and Decoration movement.

Suzanne Muchnic wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "What's interesting about this art is that Estes pulls warm textures from slick materials and builds soft forms from hard-edge patterns…her real concerns are light, space and color transformation achieved by repetition and a rigid system."

1972

She moved to Los Angeles in 1972 and first showed her work at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles.

As a founding member of Grandview 1 & 2, she was involved in the beginnings of Los Angeles feminist art organizations including Womanspace, and the feminist arts group "Double X," along with artists Judy Chicago, Nancy Buchanan, Faith Wilding, and Nancy Youdelman.

1976

Estes was also included in several exhibits of work by artists with studios in Downtown L.A., including the first exhibition at the ARCO Center Gallery in 1976.

1979

Estes was featured in a five-year solo survey of her work at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, in 1979, curated by Josine Ianco-Starrels.

A group exhibition of the Double X group was presented the next year at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E).

2005

In 2005, Fisher Galleries at the University of Southern California (U. S. C.) organized Contemporary Soliloquies on the Natural World: Karen Carson, Merion Estes, Constance Mallinson, Margaret Nielsen, Takako Yamaguchi.

The exhibition was curated by Max Schultz.

Los Angeles Times art critic David Pagel wrote that Estes' paintings were a "dizzying collision of extravagantly patterned fabrics onto which the artist has splashed, sprayed and stained various mixtures of oil and acrylic."

He cited the "funky verve of her collaged paintings, which are the show's high point."

In the exhibition catalogue, curator Schultz writes that Estes' art has "rooted in the nether, subsoil, and cloudborn worlds of sea, earth and sky intensely for enough years to produce a complex artful weave of realistic and abstract cellular, animal, vegetable and mineral forms."

2006

In September 2006, the Pomona College Museum of Art in Claremont, California, mounted a major 35-year retrospective of Estes' work.

Michael Duncan wrote in Art in America, "Estes is one of L.A.'s most underrated, yet most inventive artists who has deeply explored the intersection of nature and decoration in brash, vigorously constructed, brightly colored oil and acrylic paintings."

2009

Critic Betty Brown wrote a catalogue essay for Lost Horizons at Galerie Anais, Santa Monica, California, describing Estes' paintings at the exhibition in 2009 as both beautiful and difficult: "They maintain this apparent contradictory state precisely because the joy we feel through sight--the sheer visual delight derived from her unabashedly exuberant shapes and colors and textures--is tempered by the sorrow we also feel as we recognize the environmental devastation undermining the luxurious abundance of her scintillating surfaces."

Estes' work is included in an online exhibition of work by artists working with the theme of nature.

Curator and writer Constance Mallinson writes, "Through her multiple references to natural life from the sea to the air, Estes evokes a sublime sense of endangered and fragile beauty that extends globally."

About Un-Natural, an exhibition sponsored by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, installed at Barnsdall Park, Fabrik magazine art critic Peter Frank writes that the "expansive and complex formulations of Merion Estes, brimming with stylized references and visual montages…seem to be coding and recording how humanity interacts with nature."

The exhibition earned honors from the International Association of Art Critics.

2014

In 2014, Un-Natural, which was shown at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles and included Estes' work, was named one of the best shows in a non-profit institution in the United States by the International Association of Art Critics.