Emily Roz

Review In New City Chicago

Cammi Climaco and I got a review in New City Chicago

from Good Times, Bad Times/GARDENfresh:

“Monkeys! Chimps and fighting baboons have come to Gardenfresh gallery, posing and screaming with delicate flowers and a bloody, half-eaten gazelle. Emily Roz’s large colored-pencil drawings, which also include a leopard killing an impala, are vivid and deft portraits that evoke both Francis Bacon and Planet of the Apes. There is inevitable anthropomorphizing here, especially in a drawing of a mama chimp and baby, but the dangerous teeth, dark red mouths and exquisitely rendered coats of the baboons supersede the impulse to humanize, filling the gallery with an equal sense of our distance from the wild kingdom. Roz’s skill ensures that even the most violent image is continually engrossing.”

Rachel Furnari
March 20, 2008

Good Times, Bad Times at GARDENfresh

Good Times Bad Times
Emily Roz and Cammi Climaco
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7th, 2008 from 6 - 10pm
Exhibition continues through April 5th, 2008

Fri / Sat 12 - 5pm.
Or by appointment.
GARDENfresh
119 N. Peoria #3D
Chicago, IL, 60607

Brooklyn invades GARDENfresh!

GARDENfresh Gallery is delighted to feature Cammi Climaco and Emily Roz, two New York City artists with heavy ties to the Williamsburg Brooklyn art scene.

For what will be Cammi Climaco’s second show with GARDENfresh she plans to continue her investigation into the small victories and failures of daily life. Her bittersweet work has the capacity to make us laugh and cry at the same moment, and as before this new body retains a high sense of hope underlined with faint threads of despair.

Emily Roz’s work deals with instinctual emotions: anger, violence, hunger, the need to connect. The drawings in this show address this territory and are inspired more directly by children books and nature photography. All serve as a method to delve into the complicated relationships behind family dynamics.

A graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art Cammi Climaco has shown extensively including Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Branch Gallery in Chapel Hill, Silo Gallery in New York City, and Rotunda Gallery and The Front Room in Brooklyn.

Also a Cranbrook graduate Emily Roz has exhibited nationally including 31Grand, The Front Room, Subdivision, and ABC No Rio in New York City, and Decatur Blue in Washington DC.

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter at 31Grand

The Heart Is Lonely Hunter

opening reception, January 10, 7-9pm
January 10 - February 9, 2008
31Grand
143 Ludlow Street
New York, NY

artists:Shauna Born, Fanny Bostrom, Paul Brainard, Maureen Cavanuagh, Orly Cogan, Jan Dunning, Juno Doran, Brad Kahlhamer, Carol Riot Kane, Kris Knight, Kate Kretz, Jason Cole Mager, Ryan McClennan, Sean McDevitt, Emily Roz, and Jeff Wyckoff

Summer Sampler at Front Room Gallery

The Front Room Presents
Summer Sampler
with works by: Amanda Alic, Sasha Bezzubov, Erik Guzman, Melissa Pokorny, Emily Roz, Jan Sakota, Sante Scardillo, David Schultz, Philip Simmons, Patricia Smith, Chris Twomey and Edie Winograde

Friday June 8th—July 8th, 2007
Reception: Friday June 8th, 7-11pm
Hours: Fri—Sun 1-6pm

The Front Room is proud to present “Summer Sampler”, a delightful digestif featuring artworks by the last season’s Front Room artists as well as a preview of the shows to come, and some new selections from our Multilpes and Editions program.