Ayin Es

Ayin Es was funded by the Arts and Accessibility Technical Assistance grant.

Mixed media painter Ayin Es is a transgender abstract artist from Los Angeles who identifies as nonbinary. They are known for their unusual oil paintings, weird drawings, personal collages, and Artist's books. They also work in watercolor, installation, and video. Ayin’s work resides in museums such as the Getty, Brooklyn Museum, and National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as multiple university collections. A two-time recipient of ARC Grants from the Durfee Foundation, they've 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.

Address:
c/o Craig Krull Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. Building B3
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Artistic Discipline:

Visual Arts

Disability type:

Physical and Mental Disability

Email:

ayin@esart.com

Website:

http://esart.com

This painting is on three different-sized panels that are staggered to make one whole painting of a little boy’s birthday celebration. To the left is his grandmother in a blue checkered dress, clapping her hands. She is wearing dark sunglasses. Her hair is gray, and parts of it are floating straight up in mid-air. On the right is a little boy in front of a white birthday cake. On it, it says, “Happy Birthday Mikey.” To the right of him is another female adult in a pink dress.

King Baby

This is a painting of a mother and daughter preparing for dinner, apparently waiting for guests. To the left, a little girl in a sailor suit is trying to put on her shoes, holding herself up by a brown table in front of a graphic lavender and white wallpaper. Her face is severely distorted, and her clothing is ripped open to expose a scar that runs horizontally across her chest. Her mother stands by a set table in a yellow dress suit watching her child. Mother’s dark brown hair is neatly done up.

Shabbos Dinner Abandon

On the left of this thickly-painted work, we see a mother and grandmother relaxing on one side of a large bed with a gray, ornate headboard in a bedroom. The bed covering has different shades of green stripes. To the right of the bed, there is a little girl (age six or seven) dancing around in one of her mother’s red, sheer nightgowns. She is lifting up part of the nighty to expose her chest, where you can subtly see a scar that runs horizontally across her chest area through the sheer part of the fabric.

Disorderly Conduct

This painting is of a woman lying on a couch in her nightgown. It is painted very thick in a whimsical, abstract style. There are thick colored stripes to the left of the couch that lead up into purple wallpaper with yellow flowers above her head and across the rest of the work. Some of the birch wood is exposed on the right side of the painting. The woman’s hair is brown and yellow and extends horizontally from her head. The colors and furnishings of this painting have a 1970s motif.

She Rose From the Bed (And Onto the Couch)