Yes, yes I will, 2023 (Poster)

Exhibition poster for:Dané Estes‘Yes, yes I will’03/02 → 04/06 2023DTLA Press release:For his first solo exhibition, “Yes, yes I will,” Los Angeles-based artist Dané Estes presents oil-on-canvas paintings, mostly unstretched, works on paper and a wooden wall relief, all of which, though made in the past year, contain elements that make them feel much older. Before beginning the purely painted aspects of each work, the artist creates a dynamic, textured surface that lends the pieces a sense of age. As a result, the canvases appear like found objects with a former life before the oil even hits the canvas. In a work like La Tempesta III, 2022, smudged surfaces top layered, repetitive lines that yearn to escape the canvas, telling a story of yearning for and leaning into another space and even time. Each of the show’s works from the titular series “Yes, yes I will” features bold, playful, squiggly lines on raw canvas. Some paintings recall fire, others a storm, and all have a frenzied moti