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Free Account, Charles Street, New York.

street painter

It was around 1998 that a shift occurred in his city scenes: I began to paint storefronts and buildings with glass windows partially reflecting images of the street scene in front of the building. These paintings were based on color photographs he would make of his object, which trapped the evanescent nature of the reflections, which would change in part with the lighting and the time of day. While some amount of alteration was done for the sake of aesthetic composition, it was important to Estes that the central and the main reflected objects be recognizable, but also that the evanescent quality of the reflections be retained. I had his first of many one-man shows in 1998, at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York.

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