Ayin Es News Archive

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Summer/Fall 2024

• Exhibited my solo show, On the Mend at Compound in Yucca Valley, CA.
• All Done But None purchased by University of Southern California, Doheny Library, Special Collections.
• Houses purchased by University of Southern California, Doheny Library, Special Collections.
• Outlander purchased by University of Southern California, Doheny Library, Special Collections.
• Queersition purchased by Scripps, UC Davis, and Washington & Lee Universities' Special Collections.

Winter/Spring 2024

The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay purchased one of my bag pieces for their art collection!

Participated in Trauma, a group show at Grossmont College Hyde Art Gallery.

Participated in The Art Of__ Auction benefiting The Laurel Foundation.

Participated in ART AND MED at Torrance Art Museum.

Press by Genie Davis in Diversions LA.

Summer/Fall 2023

• Awarded The UCLA National Arts and Disability Center Artist Achievement Award.
• Participated in Desertland at HeyThere Projects.
• An interview about mental health on Bold Voyage.
• Interviewed in Canvas Rebel Magazine.
• Participated in Saatchi Art's online Pride Month's exhibit, Canvas of Expression.

Winter/Spring 2023

• Short story published in HOWL, Copper Mountain College.
• Featured interview in ShoutOut LA.
• Started working on a new series called Discarded Snapshots.
• Created THIS LAND catalogs for sale.

Summer/Fall 2022

• Video of the Artist's Talk at Craig Krull Gallery. (I come in around here at 35:30).
• Here's a video of my last solo exhibit, THIS LAND at Craig Krull Gallery.
• Review of THIS LAND in ArtNowLA by Zara Kand.
• Showed in Human Natures: Highlights from MOAH's Permanent Collection.
• Participated in High Desert Carnvial, a group show at SIP Art Space in San Marcos, CA.
• Feature interview posted on Voyage LA Magazine.
• Participated in the 40th Anniversary and Awake in Color at Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Perdo, CA.
• My 2-person show Art Queen was featured in the Hi-Desert Star twice: Here and Here (PDF).

Winter/Spring 2022

• One of my short fiction stories was published in an anthology called Slut Vomit.
• Working hard toward my new solo show at Craig Krull Gallery coming this fall.
• Participated in The Art of _ to benefit The Laurel Foundation.
• Commissioned with other high desert artists to create work for a new card game: Invasion Joshua Tree.
• Featured on GroundworkARTS.

Summer/Fall 2021

• Did 3 weekends of the Hwy 62 Open Studio Art Tours. It was pretty fun.
• Outlander purchased by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington.
• Finished a new Artist's book called, Outlander. See details.
• Art Connect Magazine featured me as one of their Artists to Watch!
• Started a new Artist's book press called, Desolate Press.

Winter/Spring 2021

• Changed my name to Ayin Es. Read about it on my blog. Made changes to the website.
• Some of my Joshua Tree paintings were featured in the May issue of the Rappahannock Review.
• My art was accepted into Cedar-Sinai Hospitals. I also donated some to LAC+USC Medical Center.
• My virtual show was featured in the LA WEEKLY by Shana Nys Dambrot.

Summer/Fall 2020

• New categories added to the Paintings section + some rearrangements made to the site.
• I have a new fine art print in a suite of Coagula Editions. Buy yours now!
• Created a new artist's forum called, Creative Spark. Join us!
• Featured at Hyperallergic on "A View From the Easel."

Winter/Spring 2020

• Online solo show at Craig Krull Gallery: All's Well in the High Desert.
• Interviewed by Ted Meyer for the Art and Med series: Our Heart Speaks.
• IndieReader published an interview with me on their website.
• I got my first short story published in the Santa Ana River Review.
• Featured under ART in the Winter/Spring issue of Lunch Ticket.

Summer/Fall 2019

• Carol's bloggie gets a redesign.
• Working on a new novel called, Queer as Mud.
• My memoir gets a pretty great review on IndieReader.
• Launched a giveaway on GoodReads
• The book site gets a make-over.
• Desert Dog Books announces second edition of Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley.

Winter/Spring 2019

• Completed a virtual book tour that lasted two months.
• Read about the opening reception of my solo show, Memoir--book launch party on my blog.
• Mentioned again in the LA WEEKLY on 14 Best Things to do in LA This Week, (4/12/2019).
• Interviewed on THIS IS NOT A TEST podcast with infamous mjp.
• Featured in LA WEEKLY on Shana Nys Dambrot's Meet an Artist Mondays.
• Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley became available on Amazon or at a book store near you!
• An excerpt from Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley was posted on Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker.
• I was awarded the Bruce Geller Memorial Prize: WORD grant from AJU's Institute for Jewish Creativity.
• A special deluxe, limited edition became available on the Desert Dog Books website.
• I wrote guest posts (articles) on both Two Drops of Ink and Anthony Avina's Blog.
• Shrapnel received a stellar book review from writer/blogger, Anthony Avina, and also did an interview.
• Shrapnel--featured among 35 indie reviews in the mid-March issue of Kirkus Magazine: Vol. LXXXVII, No. 6.
• Received a good review from KIRKUS REVIEWS.

Summer/Fall 2018

• Monsters on Jasmine St. was acquired by Beineche Library at Yale as part of Bottle of Smoke Press.
• Decided. Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley will launch April 6, 2019. (Finally!)
• Mjp and I started our own independent publishing company.
• Five paintings were purchased for the new UCSF Precision Cancer Center in San Francisco.
• Added 120 illustrations to my book and found the perfect editor.
• The Spark was placed at the University of Washington Library, Special Collections.

Winter/Spring 2018

• Completely re-wrote and finished my book, Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley. Really.
• Moved after living in the same place for 10 years. It was awful, took months, and probably years off my life.
• That editor didn't work out. I wound up in a depression and quit writing for four months.
• The National Arts & Disability Center/California Art Council awarded me a grant to get my book edited.

Summer/Fall 2017

• Devoted all of my waking hours to writing my memoir, Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley.
• Created a new Artist's book: the Spark. It includes Up to Now in a limited edition on a flash drive.
• My solo show THE EXODUS PROJECT at the Lancaster Museum of Art & History received reviews: Art & Cake, Spectrum News and Diversions LA.
• Exhibited in Chapters at CAFAM and it received press: LA Times, BLOUIN ArtInfo, Hyperallergic, Art & Cake, as well as LA WEEKLY and ARTFORUM.

Winter/Spring 2017

• Featured in the group show: Personal Matters at El Camino College Art Gallery.
• Contributed a watercolor to Women Who Draw, and I'm honored. Please consider donating.
• Released an HD version of Up To Now on Vimeo and YouTube.
• I rebuilt The Exodus Project site, and created a blog for Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley.
• I was awarded a grant by Asylum-Arts to help finish my memoir.

Summer/Fall 2016

• Participated in words|matter, a book arts show in October in Chicago, IL.
• Awarded a residency at the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency.
• Nominated for a Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship.

Winter/Spring 2016

• Featured in Studio Visit Magazine (Vol. 32).
• Participated in Splendor and Disaster in the California Outback at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair.
• I was a special guest on Mat Gleason's LIVE internet show, Modern Art Blitz. Watch it on YouTube!
• Did an Artist's Talk with Phranc at Craig Krull Gallery. Read about it on my blog!

Summer/Fall 2015

• Rock and Refuge got Pick of the Week by Eve Wood in Artillery Magazine.
• The Jewish Journal covered 7,567 Mi--> exhibition as part of the Jerusalem Biennale.
• Rock and Refuge was critiqued on YouTube by Dabbleon Art.
• Rock and Refuge got Pick of the Week, on LA Art Party.
• Opened Rock and Refuge, my first solo show at Craig Krull Gallery.
• Participated in Reciprocity, a Los Angeles Jewish Artist Retreat.
• Exhibited in Art & Home, the 2nd annual art benefit for LA Family Housing at Room & Board.
• Exhibited in the Jerusalem Biennale 2015 at Achim Hasid Complex, Jerusalem, Israel with JAI.
• Video of Up To Now went up on YouTube.
• Exhibited in An Odyssey - 10 Years of TAM: a fundraiser benefiting the Torrance Art Museum.
• Began working with Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles.
• Completely redesigned website.
• Rabbi Says was featured in Tenou'a, a contemporary French magazine for Jewish thought.
• Peter Frank reviewed Exodus in the July issue of Artillery Magazine.

Winter/Spring 2015

• Exodus was reviewed in Art LTD Magazine by Simone Kussatz.
• Exodus was reviewed on WhiteHot Magazine by Megan Abrahams.
• Exodus was reviewed in ArtScene by Molly Enholm.
• Exodus was voted Best Free LA Art Parties on LA Weekly by Shana Nys Dambrot.
• Exodus was the Pick of the Week on LA Art Party by Kathy Leonardo.
• Finally exhibited my solo project exhibition Exodus at Shulamit Gallery.
• Exhibited the Palitz Gallery in NYC for the 2014 Wynn Newhouse Exhibition.
• Featured Artist of the month on JAI (Jewish Artists Initiative).
• Featured Artist on the NADC (National Arts & Disability Center) website.
• I won the Wynn Newhouse Award.
• Interviewed with mjp on THIS IS NOT A TEST.
• My work was featured at AQUA ART MIAMI FAIR with Shulamit Gallery of Venice, CA.

Summer/Fall 2014

• Participated in Room & Board, Art & Home - an art show benefitting LA Family Housing.
• Featured image in the fall issue of Tikkun Magazine.
• Featured interview on Knotwe.com.
• My work, and words, were featured in an article on the Huffington Post.
• Did an interview with Angela Romeo of Colliding Worlds TV in Palm Springs, CA.
• Created new limited edition prints: Special 16 Dans and  la Dan Kabbalah!
• Featured on the Huffington Post Image Blog.
• Published Carol Es une Monographie de Lignes.

Winter/Spring 2014

• Began the Exodus project.
• Created a successful Kickstarter Campaign.
• I showed in an incredible Book Arts show at Otis School of Art and Design, called Binding Desire.
• Exhibited Amusement Park in "Brand 42" at the Brand Library.
• Today's Quandary. was stocked at Printed Matter.
• Participated in the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair with Shulamit Gallery.

Summer/Fall 2013

• Showed in CONTEXT Miami with Shulamit Gallery.
• Exhibited in Sacred Words, Sacred Texts, a group show, at USC Hillel.
• Published Today's Quandary..
• LA WEEKLY published a 52-photo slideshow of the Outside the Lines signing at MOCA!
• Outside the Lines, Curated by Souris Hong-Porretta - released in September!
• Released a new artists' book: Houses.
• Began working with Shulamit Gallery in Venice, CA.
• Updated the Studio section on my site.
• Participated in Treat Yourself... Art $1500 and Under, a giant group show at Koelsch Gallery in Houston, TX.
• Featured on the Huffington Post's Art Section's Image Blog!
• Neil Farber | Carol Es was released by Chance Press.

Winter/Spring 2013

• Wrote a review/article about a recent exhibition in Highland Park, published on the Huffington Post.
• After not receiving the artist's book award from NMWA, I returned to working on a smaller edition of Houses.
• Participated in several shows at Coagula Curatorial, all curated by the ever-great Mat Gleason.
• Exhibited in Jewish Rituals: Rethinking, Renewed at the Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla, CA.
• Began working on a new series - of paintings - of a whole new direction - that I later titled, This.
• Showed in Intersecting Paths: Art and Healing. It got the critic's PICK in LA's Jewish Journal.
• After nearly nine years with George Billis Gallery Los Angeles, I decided to move on to different pastures.
• Exhibited in Colorful Antics, a group show at George Billis Gallery.
• Launched the new esart.com website: January 12th, 2013. It was about two years in the making.
• Created 19 watercolor and gouache drawings for a new, collaborative Chance Press book with Neil Farber.

Summer/Fall 2012

• My art was featured in the Fall issue of Tenoua, a Jewish intellectual quarterly review in French.
• Showed in Art for the View at Sunnyview Foundation and won Honorable Mention award.
• Created a Free Art Giveaway on Facebook. The winner: Souris Hong-Porretta!
• I began mentoring a 10-year old foster child through Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters. Her name is Alicia.
• Featured on Art.Is.An.Idea about my painting process.
• Showed at Coagula Curatorial in NO JOKE and it was featured on the Huffington Post & Argot & Ochre.
• Landed an editor (Lisa Teasley) for my autobiography, Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley (still in progress).

Winter/Spring 2012

• Showed in Folktales at Nichols Berg Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
• One of my poems and a new illustration was published in the latest issue of Alligator Stew.
• Showed in I'm a frayed knot! at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College.
• I had a solo show called Bioillogical at the Learning Resource Center, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine.
• Blurb about my NY show (Detonate) was featured here on Mana Log.
• Showed at Denise Bibro Fine Art in NYC.
• Featured on the Huffington Post's ARTS Section.
• Finally, my Ethereal Research Laboratories project is completed!

Summer/Fall 2011

• Showed in Jewish Ritual Rethinking/Renewed at Hebrew Union College Los Angeles.
• Did a poetry reading and book presentation at PV Art Center as part of Installations.
• My art was published in the summer/fall edition of Zeek A Jewish Journal for Thought and Culture.
• Awarded a grant from The Artists' Fellowship, Inc., New York, NY.
• Inside/Outside, my contribution to Art House's "The Fiction Project" is finally posted in full.
• My first YouTube video!
• Featured in a Huffington Post article by Mat Gleason.
• Brand new Carol Es catalog is now available!
• Participated in Chain Letter and time flies when you're having fun.
• KPCC chose the TEL-ART-PHONE show as one of their June Picks.
• I was the Featured Artist on the JAI site for June

Winter/Spring 2011

• Participated in: Los Angeles Istanbul Connection at 18th Street & a book show at Abecedarian Gallery. (Catalog).
• The Los Angeles/Istanbul Connection was featured on KPCC's Staff Picks and mentioned on the Huffington Post!
• I won a grant from the National Arts & Disability Center to help fund my book for The Fiction Project
• A new CAROL ES Bookmark is now available from Bottle of Smoke Press.
• I won the logo design contest for the National Arts & Disability Center.
• Working on a new Artists' book called Houses.
• Chance Press officially annouces the release of Scribbles in a Sandstorm!
• I had a solo show at the Gordon JCC of Nashville gallery in March.
• Handmade Memory featured in the March Installation Magazine.
• Participated in Jewish Ritual: Rethinking, Renewed, at the Finegood Gallery, JCC at Milken.
• Participated in ART PAPERS 12TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION in Atlanta, GA.
• A new book of poems and drawings, Monsters on Jasmine St., was released from Bottle of Smoke Press.

Fall/Winter 2010

• Participated in To Live and Draw in L.A. at Angels Gate Cultural Center.
• The JCC group show I was in was in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal's Picks and Clicks.
• I created a little Etsy Store and I sold work to the CEO of Etsy!
• My SOLO SHOW was feautured in December's ArtScene under Continuing and Recommended.
• My SOLO SHOW was feautured in the new Artweek.LA.
• Feature article (LA Studio Visit) in the Fall issue of Artillery Magazine. View the PDF file here.
• Participated in Soft, a group show curated by Edith Abeyta.
• Participated at the Red Dot Fair Miami with George Billis Gallery.
• Got a review by A. Moret in Whitehot Magazine.
• An Exhibition Spotlight was on the Huffington Post for my solo show.
• I was on Coagula's Weekend Bender!
• Mention of my show was in Flavorpill and ForYourArt.
• ZingMagazine also recommended my solo show.
• Mention of my show was in the October issue of California Homes Magazine.
• Had a solo show at Tinney Contemporary called, Goodbye Mrs. Beasley.

Spring/Summer 2010

• The On | Paper show featured on the tryharder blog.
• An artcle about the On | Paper show was featured on patch.com!
• New etching available here.
• Now blogging for the Huffington Post!
• Participated in the San Diego Book Arts Third National Juried Exhibition at the Geisel Library at UCSD.
• Moppet closed.
• Participated in the Non-toxic Etching Workshop Exhibition at Self Help Graphics.
• Participated in the Venice Art Walk Silent Auction.
• 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.

Fall/Winter 09/10

• A great article about Anna Conti's studio visit was posted to her blog.
• Participated in the Winter Walls show at Tinney Contemporary.
• My PKF award is mentioned in the fall issue of Fiberarts Magazine.
• I was 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.