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Carol Es
New Paintings, Prints & Handmade Artist Book: All Done But None (Click here for more info on the book.) March 6 - April 14, 2007 Reception for the Artist:
George Billis Gallery
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11-6
Carol Es, a native Los Angelina and self-taught painter, intimately explores tribulations of childhood trauma by using a variety of mediums. Industrial pattern paper, sewing pins and thread -- materials that come about from a life growing up in the garment business with her family.
Using past experience as the fuel for subject matter, Carol transforms a broken past into a hopeful future. Personal experiences are laid bare and forged directly into the work, making each piece powerful and tangible as personal therapy. Viewers can sense a distinct style and honesty in her work, in addition to a dark, childlike humor.
Born in 1968 to a middle class Jewish mother with severe Bipolar Disorder, and a working class father with Pennsylvania Dutch/Mennonite roots. Carol’s’ dichotomous, artistic nature formed early, drawing cartoons underneath tables in bowling alleys. Acutely shy and reclusive, she spent most of her time alone while her parents relocated the family more than 15 times around the LA basin, Pennsylvania and Florida - all before her tenth birthday. As a result, she wound up leaving home at 14 to fend for herself.
Her latest narratives come in the form of new paintings, drawings and prints, as well as All Done But None, the title of her latest handmade book edition. Together these artworks embody multiple transitions in the artist’s process, along with humor, pain, angst and reverie.
Carol is a recipient of an Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant from the Durfee Foundation, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and has exhibited at the Riverside and Torrance Art Museums. A copy her first handmade book titled, 1-SELF is part of the UCLA Special Collections, the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University, the Getty Museum’s permanent collection.
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