Exhibitions
2023 Tall Tales, Short Stories2022 Periphery – David Lusk Gallery – Nashville, TN
2020 Dualities – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2018 Postcards – David Lusk Gallery – Nashville, TN
2017 Bluff Poem – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2016 Estes, Madigan, and Wait – Stricoff Fine Art – NY, NY
2016 Price is Right – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2015 Estes, Mackey and Puig – Stricoff Fine Art – NY, NY
2015 Price is Right – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2014 Tributary – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2013 Douglas Bloom, Don Estes, David Janssen – Stricoff Fine Art – NY, NY
2013 Price is Right – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2013 Works on Paper -Rhodes College Curatorial Program – Memphis, TN
2011 Prosody – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2010 Price is Right Summer Show – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2009 From Peace Mountain – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2009 Triennial Faculty Exhibition – Memphis College of Art – Memphis, TN
2009 Price is Right Summer Show – David Lusk Gallery -Memphis, TN
2009 Group Show Medicine Factory – Memphis, TN
2006 Just When You Think… – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2006 mFac 001 – Medicine Factory – Memphis, TN
2005 Winter Show – Second Floor Contemporary -Memphis, TN
2005 Tide to the Vernacular – Project Creo – St Petersburg Art Center
2005 Price is Right Summer Show – David Lusk Gallery – Memphis, TN
2005 Het Overzicht – NP40 Gallery – Amsterdam
2004 The Weight of Paper – Delta Axis Marshall Arts – Memphis, TN
2003 New American Painting: Southern Style – Bradbury Gallery – AR State Univ.
2002 Winter Group Show – Second Floor Contemporary – Memphis, TN
2002 Current Memphis NP40 Gallery / Shore Gallery – Amsterdam, nl
2002 Marshall Arts Gallery – Memphis, TN
2002 New American Paintings Open Studio – Press Gallery – Boston, MA
2000 Winter Group Show – Second Floor Contemporary – Memphis, TN
1999 Drawing, a survey of work by regional artists – Second Floor Contemporary – Memphis, TN
1998 Cut across the Middle; a Sub-Cultural Art Exchange traveling exhibition curated by Neo-Post- Now Gallery, Manitowoc; Alternate Current Artspace -Austin; Plan B Gallery -Memphis, TN
1997 Recent Work – Clough Hanson Gallery – Rhodes College – Memphis, TN
1995 100 Works – Plan B Gallery -Memphis, TN
Publications
2006 Artist at Work Commercial Appeal, Memphis
2002 New American Paintings Open Studios Press, Boston
Education
1981 University of Memphis, M.F.A. Painting
1977-1979 Arizona State University, Graduate work toward M.F.A.
1975 University of Memphis, B.F.A. Painting
Professional Activities
2005- 2012 Graduate Advisor Memphis College of Art
2003 Visiting artist; Miichael Dunev Art Projects Torrorella De Montgris, Spain
1999 Established Second Floor Contemporary, a non-commercial artspace dedicated to showing new work by regional and national artists.
1987-1992 One of the original founders of Number: A Quarterly of the Visual Arts.
Member of the Board of Directors for several years as well as contributing reviewer.
Chairman of the Board 1990
1986-1989 One of the original founders and incorporators of the Memphis Center for Contemporary Art, Memphis’ first non-profit gallery dedicated to showing new art of the region. Elected Chairman of the Board 1988.
1980-1981 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Drawing; University of Memphis
1982-1983 Instructor of Drawing and Painting, Memphis College of Art
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