Spotlight Artist

Ayin Es

Pacific Coast
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She Rose from the Bed (Then onto the Couch)

Person in a white dress sitting on a patterned couch with colorful striped blankets.

oil on birch wood panel

Disorderly Conduct

Three women in a colorful bedroom, one holds up a red dress, two lounge on the bed.

oil on gessoboard

Shabbot Dinner Abandon

Woman in yellow looks at doll in colorful, modern room with set dinner table and wall art.

oil on wood panel

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Artist Statement

I am a storyteller, a trauma survivor, a transformer, a vulnerable child, and, at times, bulletproof. I am an onlooker of the present day, experimenting with my own subconsciousness, yet I also revisit the past to reclaim ownership over it. In doing so, I reveal to myself the capability to rewrite new futures.

As a transqueer artist, I am attuned to living authentically and not playing by earthly norms. Cathartic is this candid theory of personal transparency, these abstracted nightmares of redemption. I address what is before me and what is important to me: the life I am living, the life I have lived, and the ground beneath my feet.

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