Career
She has written articles for Coagula Art Journal and the Huffington Post. As a musician, she has played for 20 years as an Rhythm & Blues drummer touring and recording drums with various artists. She played drums on Rickie Lee Jones" Ghostyhead album in 1997.
Her Artists" books are featured in the Jean Paul Getty Trust Research Institute Library in Los Angeles, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and also in prominent university collections such as the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University Library, University of California Irvine, Otis College of Art & Design, and the University of California, Los Angeles Library Special Collections.
Es" mixed media paintings have exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, California, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. As a visual artist, Es is known for creating personal narratives.
She has used past experience as the fuel for her subject matter, transforming a broken history into a positive and spiritual resolve. Candid experiences are laid bare and forged directly into her paintings, drawings, soft sculptures, mixed media installations, and handmade books
In 2015, Los Angeles Art Critic, Peter Frank wrote: "An autodidact, Es has long embodied her interests and her 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, who strongly influenced Es) but aggressively trouble the mind."
In 2010, Los Angeles art critic, A. Moret wrote: "The viewer activates the past as Es rewrites the story by mending a broken history and constructing a new narrative.
Carol Es has transformed the past that once plagued her existence into her raison d’ être. Es" artwork has been reviewed in Los Angeles Weekly, Artillery Magazine, Art Limited, ArtScene Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, Jewish Journal, and the Huffington Post. She has been represented by Shulamit Gallery in Venice California and George Billis Gallery Los Los Angeles
She is currently working on an autobiography.
