Carol Es, contemporary, self-taught artist, Los Angeles, specializing in garment patterns and oil paintings with embroidery.
n e w s a r c h i v e
- Spring 2010
- Was guest speaker at LMU.
- Visions, Dreams, Patterns and Memories was the HOT PICK on Experience LA.
- Visions, Dreams, Patterns and Memories was one of the Los Angeles Jewish Journal's Picks & Clicks.
- YouTube video about a previous exhibition at Saint Vincent Gallery in PA.
- The "Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity" show at Saint Vincent Gallery was featured on ZEEK.
- A great article about Anna Conti's studio visit was posted to her blog.
- Fall/Winter 2009/2010
- Participated in the Winter Walls show at Tinney Contemporary.
- My PKF award is mentioned in the fall issue of Fiberarts Magazine.
- featured on Artistaday.
- Fresh Voices group show was in the Jewish Journal's pick of the week.
- Summer 2009
- Awarded a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship Grant for 2009-2010.
- Got a studio space in Highland Park, and I named it "Moppet".
- Preview of the Marfa show in their local Big Bend Sentinel.
- New article written by A. Moret in the Summer issue of ArtWorks Magazine. Download the PDF file.
- January/February 2009
- Inner Outline got the ART Pick of the Week in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal.
- I got an AMAZING review in Art, LTD by Shana Nys Dambrot.
- November/December 2008
- Finished a new, handmade Artists' book, Horsebucket, now on sale for $129.
- Artist Baby Smith created a little song and film about moi!
- September/October 2008
- Participated in the Red Dot Fair: LONDON: with George Billis Gallery.
- Mat Gleason talks about my show on the Coagula website!
- Preview in Flavorpill LA.
- She Dreamed She Remembered in Picks and Clicks in the Jewish Journal.
- She Dreamed She Remembered Preview in THE Magazine Los Angeles.
- My show in Nashville got the Critic's Pick in The Tennesean.
- Had a solo show at Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, TN.
- Participated in a group show with Islands Fold at MOHS Exhibit in Copenhagen.
- July/August 2008
- Sweetnsour Pie is placed in the Artists' books collection at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
- Participated in the $2 Bill Show at I-5 Gallery and the Benefit Auction at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825.
- June 2008
- Review of the Bookish show in the Seattle Times.
- Sweetnsour Pie is placed in the Artists' books collection at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York.
- May 2008
- UC Irvine purchases All Done But None for their Artists' Books Collection.
- Participated in Incognito 4 at Santa Monica Museum of Art (Here's the piece I made)
- April 2008
- Featured on the Huffington Post!
- Showing at the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University in a show called "Bookish."
- They're here! New Blogger Killings prints!
- 1-SELF accepted into Bibliotheque Kandinsky Artists' Books Collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris!
- March 2008
- New pages added to the An American Rhapsody series.
- 1-SELF was purchased by The Brooklyn Museum and Otis College of Art & Design.
- I am mentioned in an article about Self Help Graphics in the LA Times.
- Completed a new silkscreen print at Self Help Graphics.
- February 2008
- writing an article about Rochelle Botello's last show for Coagula.
- Featured in the current issue of Influenza Magazine.
- January 2008
- Participated in the Los Angeles Art Show with George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
- Sweetnsour Pie sells out.
- All Done But None was added to the National Museum of Women in the Arts by Ann Savage.
- Working on a project called, Ethereal Research Laboratories.
- December 2007
- Sweetnsour Pie listed on Printed Matter.
- This review of the Sunnyview show in Schenectady, NY.
- showed in holiday group show at Sabina Lee Gallery in Los Angeles.
- Selections from the Sunnyview Exhibit at Mandeville Gallery at Union College in NY.
- showed at Flow - Miami Invitational Art Fair with Koelsch Gallery, Houston TX.
- also showed at Red Dot Fair Miami with George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
- I made this piece for Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge show.
- November 2007
- New article on Whitehot Magazine.
- I made this hankie for Edith Abeyta's Salty show.
- My blog has been updated. Now the old archive is here.
- My new chapbook Sweetnsour Pie from Islands Fold is released.
- October 2007
- Spent my time putting stuff away. Moving is a bitch.
- September 2007
- Left my studio at Angels Gate, moved across Los Angeles to the North East.
- Awarded Best-in-Show for the Acquisitions Exhibition at Sunnyview.
- my show in Houston was recommended by spacetaker.
- August 2007
- opened a solo show at Koelsch Gallery in Houston, TX.
- group show: Circumnavigating the Soul at Pounder Kone Artspace.
- an interview with Angels Gate.
- July 2007
- Showed in Outside the Box at Greene Contemporary.
- designed a bag with scribble couture.
- June 2007
- Awarded a grant from the Durfee Foundation for my solo show in Houston this fall.
- Art For Clare: A benefit auction to support the CLARE Foundation.
- May 2007
- Featured in Platforms #13.
- Created a new project called SpyMart.
- All Done But None now additionally represented by Vamp and Tramp Book Sellers.
- NEW Limited Edition PRINTS for sale.
- April 2007
- New specimens in Dark Objects, Light Matter at Galleri Urbane.
- Participated in Incognito at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
- Had Open Studios at Angels Gate Cultural Center.
- Unbelievably GREAT review on The Mat Gleason Seven, ArtScene Visual Radio.
- My Blogger Killing drawings on the Huffington Post.
- The George Billis show got #3 in Coagula Journal's Top Ten.
- Here's a nice little blurb I got in: The Jewish Journal.
- March 2007
- George Billis show got favorpill press by Shana Nys Dambrot.
- posted images from the Billis reception and made some site updates.
- Participated in After the F Word at I5 Gallery and an all-women show at The Loft in San Pedro.
- February 2007
- Got some press in the Long Beach Press-Telegram and in Redlands Daily Facts.
- Finished my newest artists' book edition, All Done But None.
- George Billis took my Blogger Killings to the Red Dot Fair.
- Did some updates to the site and added this new page.
- January 2007
- Invited as guest speaker at Ryman Arts, a gifted high school scholarship program at USC.
- mentioned as one of his "favorite artists" on the Mat Gleason Seven radio show. Listen here!
- At the LA Art Show in Santa Monica with George Billis.
- In a Press-Enterprise feature about the Material Girls show at Riverside Art Museum.
- my art was used as the cover for bob hicok's This Clumsy Living.
- December 2006
- offered a show of drawings at Koelsch Gallery in Houston, with tad lauritzen wright.
- Participated in Perspectives at the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
- Participated in Postcards From the Edge at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC.
- November 2006
- new etching available called, Small Mind's Afloat.
- 1-SELF was at The NY Art Book Fair via Zucker Art Books, NY.
- this piece in SURVIVING: Kinkade, curated by Mat Gleason at I-5 Gallery.
- Invited to show in Material Girls in January at the Riverside Art Museum.
- featured in issue 7 of Platforms.
- October 2006
- my work was featured in Issue 6 of Platforms Magazine.
- Shear Through the Stock was selected for a show at the Craft and Folk Art Museum.
- 2 pieces of mine were selected for new RiffRAG.
- now I can post a collection of art whenever I want to. & I posted new drawings and map pieces.
- September 2006
- did this written art piece in the September issue of Coagula Art Journal.
- August 2006
- did an interview with Claudio Parentela for his blog, The eXTra finGer.
- A new PRESS page added, plus I updated my statement and added some brand new work.
- July 2006
- Walking the Dog appears in Raw Vision Magazine as part of the Zetter Collection.
- I am working on a brand new artist book edition called All Done But None.
- June 2006
- Dunces Bloom From the Rains was chosen by Jeremy Strick (MOCA Director) for Biannual.
- Exhibited in Multicultural Self-taught Artists, LA Artcore (catalog avaliable).
- I had work at the Affordable Art Fair at the George Billis Gallery's booth.
- San Pedro Magazine put out this article about the Getty purchase of my book, 1-SELF.
- May 2006
- Participated in the Venice Art Walk.
- Participated in a slient auction benefiting the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation.
- Participated in Show & Tell: The Art of Time at The Zimmer Children's Museum.
- Open Studios at Angels Gate Cultural Center.
- April 2006
- Participated in the New York Antiquarian Book Fair via Irving Zucker Art Books.
- The Arts Council from LACMA visited my studio.
- group show at Bentley Projects in Phoenix.
- Solo show at Gallery 825/LAAA: My Identity Lab.
- March 2006
- Featured in flavorpill, Issue # 161!
- New work added to the site. Check it out!
- I was mentioned on Fette's Flog last week, which means I'm real "hip!"
- Exciting: This feature appeared in Sunday's Daily Breeze, with full color pictures!
- Garrison Frost from LA South Bay's The Aesthetic interviewed me. Read it here.
- interview on Karen D'Amico's blog.
- February 2006
- my book, 1-SELF, was purchased by The Getty Research Institute.
- 1-SELF, appeared in both the LA Book Fair and the San Francisco Book, Print, & Paper Fair.
- January 2006
- took a larger studio at Angels Gate Cultural Center.
- my book was purchased by the Arthur & Mata Jaffe Collection at FAU.
- December 2005
- participated in Night of 1000 Drawing at Artists Space in NY.
- participated in Incognito II at Santa Monica Museum of Art.
- my book becomes available at Vamp & Tramp + Califa Books.
- participated in Twisted Christmas at BGH Gallery in at Santa Monica.
- participated in a group show at George Billis Gallery in Culver City.
- participated in a group show at Gallery 825 at Bergamot Station.
- November 2005
- my book is now in the UCLA Library Department of Special Collections.
- finished the clock for the Show and Tell show.
- participated in the Katrina Relief Auction.
- October 2005
- I was awarded a solo show at Gallery 825 for next spring.
- went to NYC and Philadelphia.
- the Drawing Center's assistant curator used my work in a panel discussion at AFAM.
- featured in Tangent, a cool zine in the UK by Karen D'Amico.
- working on a clock diorama for Show and Tell to benefit the Zimmer Children's Musuem.
- September 2005
- Mat Gleason wrote a very nice review of my show here on Art Muscle!
- The George Billis show reception was great! Pictures here.
- Created these bunny prints on timecards to sell for $41.20. order one now!