About

Merion Estes is an ecofeminist and Pattern & Decoration pioneer who became active in the Feminist Art Movement in the late 1960s and ‘70s with the opening of Womanspace and the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. One of her consistent avenues of artistic exploration is the fusion of beauty and horror, and she juxtaposes diverse materials and images to create prescient landscapes exploring environmental vulnerability, instability, and loss. In her newest paintings, Mutants, Monsters, and Ghosts, Estes explores our present environmental perils: pollution and degradation. She creates complex …