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San Pedro, CA: Careless Press, 2013. Hardcover. Number 24 of 50 copies. A mini-manifesto about making artists' books in which the author casually discusses her creative process, setbacks, financial considerations, frustrations, lack of support, artistic choices, and more. Humorous, insightful, and highly relatable.
Bound in hand sewn stiff white paper wrappers with letterpress printed title, author, and illustration to wrappers. Includes an original, colored pencil drawing on the second page. A commercially printed book with black and white reproductions of the artist's pen drawings. Printed by Bill Roberts at Bottle of Smoke Press in Dover, DE. Unpaginated. [28 pages.] Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
Contemporary abstract artist, Ayin Es was born and raised in Los Angeles. They identify as nonbinary or genderqueer. Known primarily for their unusual mixed media oil paintings and artist's books, their work is considered raw and highly personal. At a glance, brightly colored surfaces suggest children's art, but upon deeper inspection there is evidence of abuse, disability, queer and transgender subject matter, family dynamics, and other thought-provoking themes. Widely collected, Ayin's imaginative artworks reside in museums such as the Getty, Brooklyn Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Centre Pompidou, and more. A two-time recipient of ARC Grants from the Durfee Foundation, they've also won a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, the Wynn Newhouse Award, an Artist Achievement Award from the National Arts & Disability Center, and the Bruce Geller Memorial Award from the American Jewish University. Los Angeles Art Critic, Peter Frank wrote: "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, who strongly influenced Es) but aggressively trouble the mind." ARTB/052825. Fine.
Item #37950
Price: $100.00