My friend, artist Baby Smith, wrote this lovely song “Just 8” for me on a ululele, while simultaneously creating this wonderful video. It made me so sad for me! Yet, I am so proud and flattered and thrilled, humbled and tickled at the same time. Thank you Beck! You are the sweetest thing!!!
RIP Mitch Mitchell
One of THE best drummers of all time died today, He will be deeply missed. This is surely sad news.
Prop 8: WTF?
I’m glad and proud about America voting in our first black president. It’s about fucking time. I am happy about it, etc etc. But I am NOT happy with California who voted yes on Prop 8. In fact, I don’t know why this was even on the ballot in the first place! How the hell did it get on there? You can’t have the majority of morons voting against a minority! If the people were allowed to vote on African Americans’ rights, that would not have been fair since we are talking about making way for the rights of the minority of people regardless of the majority disagreeing. I am just very upset and angry about the outcome of this proposition, I can’t even put it into proper words. .
..And the whole angle on what it’s going to do to “the children” and “families” was such utter bullshit. Gay people being married doesn’t do anything to your families or your precious children. You can still go on trying to tell your kids it’s a terrible sin if that’s what you chose to do. You can’t deny that there are gay people in this world. There always was and always will be whether you religious nuts like it or not! It’s not other people’s choice to make! Especially about a personal relationship that is not your own and that makes you uncomfortable. So stay out of it! Yet, you want to stick your big fat schnoz into other people’s families. Gay families have absolutely no bearing or threat to your twisted teachings in your own family. For the people that voted yes on 8, it is a religious issue and this should have NOTHING to do with LAW or Civil Rights of our citizens. Fuck fuck fuck you, you self-righteous hillbillies!
How this proposition can reverse a law that was given as a right to a minority group, is still beyond me. How can a religious view become a law????? Can you say UNCONSTITUTIONAL?!
My Top 99 Favorite Movies
…just because.
51 Birch Street
7 Up Documentaries
Airplane
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
All About my Mother
Amalie
American Splendor
An Angel at My Table
Annie Hall
The Apartment
As Good as it Gets
Barfly
Being There
Betty Blue
Blazing Saddles
Blue Velvet
The Bobo
Born Into Brothels
Broadway Danny Rose
Chuck and Buck
Cinema Paradiso
Clock Watchers
A Clockwork Orange
Danielson Family Movie
The Deer Hunter
Defending Your Life
Detour
The Devil and Daniel Johnson
Dial M for Murder
Dr. Strangelove
Edward Scissorhands
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fargo
Frances
Frida
Fur
Garden State
Goodfellas
Gray Gardens
Hannah and her Sisters
Happiness
Harold & Maude
How to Draw a Bunny
I heart Huckabees
The Ice storm
In the Realms of the Unreal
Juno
Kill Bill
Killer of Sheep
L’iceberg
L.A. Story
Lolita
Lost in America
Léon (a.k.a. The Professional)
Magnolia
Manhattan
Me and You and Everyone we Know
Modern Romance
Mr Death
Nikita (a.k.a. Le Femme Nikita)
North by Northwest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Party
Personal Velocity
Pi
Postcards from the Edge
Price of Milk
Rabbit-proof Fence
Radio Flyer
Raise the Red Lantern
Rear Window
Rope
Ruby in Paradise
Run Lola Run
Secretary
Short Cuts
Siesta
Smart People
Snow cake
Stardust Memories
The Squid and the Whale
Sweet Land
Swoon
Tarnation
Things Behind the Sun
This is Spinal Tap
Thin Blue Line
Thumbsucker
Topaz
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
Vertigo
Volver
Waitress
Welcome to the Dollhouse
What’s up Doc?
Where’s Papa
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Year of the Dog
You’re Gonna Miss Me
SAVE THE DATE!
October 11, 2008 5-8 PM
Please join me for my solo show:
Carol Es
She Dreamed She Remembered
October 7 – November 15, 2008
Reception for the Artist:
Saturday, October 11th 5-8 PM
George Billis Gallery LA
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
tel: (310) 838-3685
She dreams she is free, yet, connected. And she remembers she can do whatever she wants – because art has no rules.
Life is lived in a parallel facsimile – where her affections for everything that is alive (both here and non-existent) is as true as time is a lie, and reality, a concept.
The girl the artist calls “Moppet” appears in both canvases and panels in various ways: crawling out of black holes, flying between them, and hanging on to familiar behaviors. Some are just Moppet heads floating about – observing memories, dreams and thoughts.
Carol Es is a native Los Angelina and self-taught painter whose work intimately explores her Jewish Identity and the tribulations of childhood trauma. Her new works are witty psychological portraits and pieces such as “Arctic Memory” mark her past, while serving as a release. She uses language, both Hebrew and English to denote her message as well as embroidering directly onto the canvas adding a distinct 3-D dimensionality to the painting. The string acts like a literal thread running through her life’s memories and tying them all together. These artworks embody multiple transitions in her art making, along with humor, pain, angst and reverie.
Es’ works are featured in numerous private and public collections including the Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Brooklyn Museum, UCLA Special Collections, the Jaffe Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She has exhibited at Riverside Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, 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 a grant from the Artists’ Fellowship in New York.
Image: Arctic Memory, 2008.
40 x 60 inches, Oil, paper patterns, pencil, thread, embroidery on canvas.