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Carol Es is a self-taught artist and native Los Angelina born in 1968. Her artistic nature formed early at age six, drawing cartoons underneath tables in bowling alleys. Shy and reclusive, she spent most of her time alone while her family relocated more than 15 times before her tenth birthday. As a result, she attended school infrequently and began working as a pattern cutter in the apparel industry with her family while living on her own to fend for herself by just age fourteen. In her young adulthood, she established herself as artist, musician and writer, forming her own patronage by distributing handmade Artists' books and zines while traveling as a drummer. She eventually set aside music to concentrate more privately on art and has since become a prolific and dedicated visual artist. Carol expresses herself wholly in her art after surviving a tumultuous childhood of sexual abuse and neglect. She uses past experience, family dysfunction and Jewish heritage as the fuel for her subject matter, transforming a broken past into a culmination of paper collage, garment patterns, sewing pins, thread, text, and prose - personal experiences laid bare and forged directly into the work. Viewers can sense a distinct honesty in her work, and a dark, childlike humor that intertwines with her paintings, drawings, installations, and books. Her works are featured in numerous private and public collections including the Getty Museum, Brooklyn Museum, UCLA Special Collections, the Jaffe Collection, and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Carol has exhibited at The Riverside Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Craft & Folk Art Museum, and Zimmer Children's Museum. She is also a two-time recipient of The ARC Grant from the Durfee Foundation and just finished a residency at Self Help Graphics in East Los Angeles. She is currently working on a solo show with George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles, and a solo installation at Galleri Urbane in Marfa, Texas.
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