December 5 - 24, 2009

Reception for the Artist:
Saturday, December 5th, 6-9 PM

Koelsch Gallery: 703 Yale, Houston, Texas 77007 tel: (713) 626-0175

Carol Es is a self-taught Los Angeles artist born in 1968. 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. She 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 was recently awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Fellowship.

The solo show she will be presenting include both paintings on canvas and works on paper, specifically from her American Rhapsody series, where subversive words are painted in watercolor over the book pages from an American Way book (The Union's preset for grading garment patterns for the manufacturing trade).