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Ayin Es (b. 1968; Los Angeles, CA) is a nonbinary artist based in Joshua Tree, CA. Their work explores the intentional and unintentional aspects of self, identity and spirituality. Growing up in their family’s garment business, Es fled an abusive situation at the age of fifteen, started making art and became a drummer in a punk band, touring North America and topping charts. Es was diagnosed with physical and mental disabilities in their 30s, at which point they stopped touring to dedicate themself wholly to their studio.
"An autodidact, Es has long embodied their interests and their struggles - in painted and drawn and even sculpted and sewn imagery - darkly whimsical forms and figures whose deft fluidity have the eye ‘going for a walk with a line’ (in the words of Paul Klee, a strong influence on Es) but aggressively trouble the mind." - Peter Frank, Los Angeles-based art critic and curator.
Recent exhibitions include those Craig Krull Gallery, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Torrance Art Museum, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Craft Contemporary, and University of Wisconsin. Es’ work resides in museums such as the Getty, Centre Pompidou/Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Brooklyn Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Otis College of Art & Design, Yale University/Beinecke Library, Museum of Modern Art, UC San Francisco Precision Cancer Center, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, and LAC+USC Medical Center. A two-time recipient of ARC Grants from the Durfee Foundation, Es has also won a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, the Wynn Newhouse Award, grants from the National Arts and Disability Center/California Arts Council, Asylum-Arts in Brooklyn, NY, and the Bruce Geller Memorial Award from the American Jewish University. Their work has been reviewed or published in Artillery, LA Times, ArtScene, LA WEEKLY, ArtNowLA, ArtLTD, Art&Cake, and WhiteHot Magazine.
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Ayin Es (b. 1968; Los Angeles, CA) is a nonbinary artist based in Joshua Tree, CA. Their work explores the intentional and unintentional aspects of self, identity and spirituality. Growing up in their family’s garment business, Es fled an abusive situation at the age of fifteen, started making art and became a drummer in a punk band, touring North America and topping charts. Es was diagnosed with physical and mental disabilities in their 30s, at which point they stopped touring to dedicate themself wholly to their studio.
"An autodidact, Es has long embodied their interests and their struggles - in painted and drawn and even sculpted and sewn imagery - darkly whimsical forms and figures whose deft fluidity have the eye ‘going for a walk with a line’ (in the words of Paul Klee, a strong influence on Es) but aggressively trouble the mind." - Peter Frank, Los Angeles-based art critic and curator.
Recent exhibitions include those Craig Krull Gallery, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Torrance Art Museum, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Craft Contemporary, and University of Wisconsin. Es’ work resides in museums such as the Getty, Centre Pompidou/Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Brooklyn Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Otis College of Art & Design, Yale University/Beinecke Library, Museum of Modern Art, UC San Francisco Precision Cancer Center, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, and LAC+USC Medical Center. A two-time recipient of ARC Grants from the Durfee Foundation, Es has also won a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, the Wynn Newhouse Award, grants from the National Arts and Disability Center/California Arts Council, Asylum-Arts in Brooklyn, NY, and the Bruce Geller Memorial Award from the American Jewish University. Their work has been reviewed or published in Artillery, LA Times, ArtScene, LA WEEKLY, ArtNowLA, ArtLTD, Art&Cake, and WhiteHot Magazine.