Emily Roz

Review on Art 99

Review By Daniel Josh Weiner on ART99

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009
Art-99; a 99 word review.
Emily Roz @ The Front Room Gallery through March 29, 2009

Twelve intensely rendered, colorful scenes of natural world violence and menace: Hyenas and chimps populate the pictures with dead and suffering impala, Wildebeest and gazelles. Some appear in repose-like agony among well-drawn dogweed blossoms, poppies and honeysuckle. Dismembering and disemboweling bring to mind Thomas Huxley’s sensational descriptions of Darwinism. The gore seems too familiar, from images of war.  The beautiful gestures and colors, plus one decorative pattern re-contextualize predation. While the apparent sadism of “Chimp Mother and Child” pushes the limits of what is natural the show as a whole draws a line between types of violence.

Kill the Beast at Front Room Gallery, Opening Friday, February 27

Opening Reception, Friday, February 27th, 7-9pm

Front Room Gallery
147 Roebling St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718)782-2556
http://www.frontroom.org

Front Room Gallery is Proud to Present
“Kill the Beast” by Emily Roz
February 27-March 29nd
Hours, Fri-Sun 12-6 and by appt.

In her most recent series of drawings and gouache paintings, Emily
Roz unleashes the fury and frustration of these uncertain times
through images of wild animals, blatantly revealing their primordial
aggression.  These disturbingly captivating images reveal the basest
of animalistic impulses. The large scale, highly detailed, and labor
intensive colored pencil drawings as well as the smaller scale
gouache paintings included in this exhibition, continue on a thread
of violence from Roz’s earlier photographic work.  Her past work at
times has mocked our indifference to violent images in the media, Roz
now turns to the internal psyche, and how it is reflected within
society in terms of natural selection and survival of the fittest.

Taking cues from classic texts like William Golding’s Lord of the
Flies and Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica, Emily Roz
questions the nature of man, mirrored through these animal stand-
ins. As Wernor Herzog states in Grizzly Man, “…the common
denominator of the universe is not harmony but chaos, hostility and
murder.”

This exhibition examines the animalistic instincts which are present
in our in our society today, with such intensity and focus, Roz
reveals the unpleasant underbelly of nature, which at times like
these, is rearing its ugly head.

for more information contact:

Daniel Aycock
Director
(718)782-2556
http://www.frontroom.org

Quality Service, opening reception Tuesday, February 24

Quality Service, at The Cooper Union
February 24-28, 2009

opening reception Tuesday, February 24th 6-8 pm

Wayne Adams / Betsy Alwin / Jerry Blackman / Alex Campaz / Adrien
Casey / Lea Cetera / Eun ju Chung / Lorenzo Clayton & George
Sidebotham / Reuben Cox / Ian DeLaune / Dennis Delgado / Gearóid Dolan
a.k.a. screaMachine / João Enxuto / Nelson Figallo / Ben Fries / Pedro
Gonzalez / Katherine A. Godwin / Leah Hebert / Anna Hostvedt / Haisi
Hu / Einat Imber / James Kendi / Richard Knox / Frank Kurtzke / Kevin
Leonard / Marget Long / Elizabeth Marshall / Ross McLaren / Lawrence
F. Mesich / Cathy Mooses / Zach Poff / Robin Randisi / Jason Reppert /
Emily Roz / J.D. Walsh / Jersey Walz / Andy Wilhelm / David William /
Jennifer Williams / Caroline Woolard / Bryan Zimmerman

The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003

Future Days, April 10

Steeped in 40 years of Downtown New York history, the legendary Rafik Video Institution presents a new chapter in its evolution; the establishment of a curated showcase of emerging artists in its newly renovated space.  Opening on Friday April 10th, “Future Days” the inaugural show has been produced in association with Rafiks’ Director/Proprietor Mindy Wyatt, and artists Justin Warsh and Ron A. Rocheleau. 

Consisting of works by artists carefully scouted from the White Columns Online Registry, the show’s title is a reference to the influential album of the same name by German experimental icons CAN.  As seemingly hazy yet riddling as the lyrics of the song, the art showcased is bound by a chord that is both distant and provocative.  “Future Days” also refers metaphorically to the recent orientation of the DIY showcasing of art that is prevalent at this moment.

For more information please contact Justin at 212.475.7884

April 10 - May 7, 2009

at Rafik
814 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY

Monday-Friday 9:30-6:30