A note from Carol Es:
Please join me at the reception for my very special show at UCLA Hillel's Dortort Center for Creativity. I am presenting more than a dozen paintings, along with a 46-piece drawing installation in Gindi Hall on the 2nd floor. I am honored to be showing my work in the context of this setting for many reasons, especially since I have been using pattern shapes to create Hebrew texts as a way of connecting to a source of place and people which feels like home to me. I have been scraping together what little knowledge I have of my roots, my genetic heritage, and my Jewish birthright because I missed out on most of it as a child. This exhibition has been a wonderful way for me to embrace a long lost part of myself and share it with students, faculty, and the public. I would greatly appreciate and honor your presence.
Carol Es
Inner Outline
January 7 - March 20, 2009
Reception for the Artist:
Wednesday, February 18th 7-9 PM
Dortort Center for Creativity at UCLA Hillel: Gindi Hall - 2nd Floor
574 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. 90024, Contact Perla Karney, Tel: (310) 208-3081
Carol Es is an exciting and original new voice. She expresses herself wholly in her art after surviving a tumultuous childhood of sexual abuse and neglect. She uses past experience, family dysfunction and her own 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 her work.
Carol's works are featured in numerous private 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 a two-time recipient of the ARC grant from the Durfee Foundation and completed a special print residency at Self Help Graphics in East Los Angeles. She is represented by George Billis Gallery.
Parking is available for $8 at UCLA Lot #2 on the corner of Westholme and Hilgard.
I will also have my new Artists' book Horsebucket there, available for purchase for just $129.99. Such a bargain!
