professional

2005

Graduate Advisor Faculty, Memphis College of Art

2003

Visiting Artist Program, Dunev Art Projects, Torroella De Mongris, Spain

1999-current

Executive Director of Second Floor Contemporary - an alternative exhibition gallery for new art of the region

1987-92

A founder of NUMBER, a quarterly magazine of the visual arts in the Mid-South

1986-89

A founder of the Memphis Center for Contemporary Art - Memphis' first non-profit gallery dedicated to showing new art of the region

1982-83

Instructor, Memphis College of Art

selected exhibitions

2009

From Peace Mountain, David Lusk Gallery
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery

2006

Class of '06, Lantana/Medicine Factory, Memphis
Just When You Think, David Lusk Gallery
Powerhouse Auction, The Powerhouse, Delta Axis, Memphis
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
Inaugural Exhibition of Multi Media Site Specific Installations, Medicine Factory, Memphis

2005

Tide to the Vernacular, Project Creo Gallery, St Petersburg, FL
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
Het Overzicht NP40 Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2003

New American Painting Southern Style, Bradbury Gallery ASU Jonesboro, AR

2002

Winter Group Show, Second Floor Contemporary Memphis
Current Memphis NP40 Gallery/Schore Gallery, Amsterdam NL
Don Estes and Dwayne Butcher, Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis
New American Paintings Invitation Exhibition, Open Studios Press Gallery, Boston

2000

Winter Group Show, Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis

1999

Drawing, a survey of work by regional artists, Second Floor Contemporary,
Memphis

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

1997

Recent Work, Clough Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis
Cut Across the Middle: a Sub-Cultural Art Exchange, an exhibition
in conjunction with Neo-Post-Now Gallery, Alternate Current Artspace, and
Plan B Gallery in Manitowoc, Austin and Memphis respectively

selected bibliography

2006

Fredric Koeppel, Commercial Appeal Playbook, Much may pale in light of the Estes
abstracts, November 10, 2006, p. 24-5
Andrea Lisle, Memphis Business Journal, CityLife, Layered horizon, Mississippi River views
inspire latest works by Don Estes, Nov 3-5, 2006, p 36-37
Fredric Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal, Playbook, It's His Calling: Artist at Work,
March 2006, p. 24

2002

New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston