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Larry Estridge\'s life and work took a dramatic turn, at the age of 35, when he discovered paint. He was living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, at the time, and becoming increasingly disenchanted with the downtown music scene and journalism, the arenas in which he had concentrated his efforts.

Painting seemed a natural extension of his life-long involvement with music - but unlike his songs, musical performances and articles, which were largely bound up with political concerns, painting offered a fresh approach to the world, its harmonies and color, its physical and spiritual dimensions.

An initial body of large-scale works incorporated simple geometric forms and a broad palette. These were followed by a more somber group of paintings, in which color cooked out in the painting process, not incidentally related to the impending death of the painter\'s father. Small figural works came next, in which the painter focused on initial impulses and the paint\'s liquid possibilities to elaborate what he came to call\"an alphabet of gesture\". The sculptural nature of these signs led him to pursue a latent interest in sculpture.

In recent years, Estridge\'s work has focused on abstract sculpture works in steel, which build on his long-term fascination with primary underlying forms in nature. These spare and elegant, psychologically resonant works enclose and carve space in surprising ways, offering diverse readings of archetypal content.

Estridge was born in New York City and raised on the North Shore of Long Island. He received a B.A. from Harvard in 1970. He has had solo shows at the White Columns Gallery in downtown New York and at the Miller Gallery, Lucky Street Gallery and the Charest-Weinberg Gallery in Key West. He has exhibited in group shows in New York and various Key West venues. Over the past five years, he has participated in Art in the Park shows at Fort Zachary Taylor. Sculpture Key West, the sponsoring organization, has selected his work for additional display at the Customs House Museum and the Grinnell Street Pocket Park.

Estridge\'s work is represented in prominent collections in the Northeast and Florida. His principle residence and studios are in Key West, Florida, but he also lives and works in New York City and Teasdale, Utah.




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Angelos Heart
12" X 38" X 22"

Homeward Bound
18" X 32" X 24"