George Billis Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present It's Mostly About Me and Much Less About You, a solo exhibition of new mixed media work by Los Angeles artist, Carol Es. The exhibition will run from October 30 – December 31, 2010. The gallery will host an opening reception for the artist on Saturday, October 30th from 5pm to 8pm.
It's Mostly About Me and Much Less About You is a new series of work that includes oil on canvas and linen mixed with paper and embroidery, as well as drawings on paper and handmade dolls. Carol Es uses an amalgamation of characters from her family and her apparel industry background to evoke abstracted, childlike narratives that drip in color and tattered threads to tell personal, visual stories. Paintings with paper garment patterns and their scrap surround cartooned family members, and a new nondescript animal appropriately named "Dan." Black holes, gumball machines, and what appear to be misfit toys as haphazard characters crudely drawn, create a dark, yet lighthearted comic aesthetic.
