Emily Roz

Apollo Magazine | The Women’s Room, May 2009

Write up in the British publication Apollo Magazine, May 2009

From The Women’s Room, A walk round Brooklyn and Manhattan galleries reveals the work of both new and well-known women artist
by Vincent Katz, Monday, 27th April 2009

“On a recent visit, I encountered some of the most interesting art I’d seen in a while. The best part was they were things I was unprepared for, by artists I did not know. I started in Williamsburg, at Front Room Gallery on Roebling Street (Fig. 2). It is one of the older Brooklyn galleries, having been around since 1999. Its blurb says it favours conceptual and ‘non-commercial’ art, but on the day I was there I was amazed by Emily Roz’s large, highly detailed coloured-pencil drawings of animals in beautiful settings involved in life-and-death struggles. Front Room also produces an intriguing line of multiples.”

Listing in New York Magazine

Listing in New York Magazine by Miranda Siegel for Kill the Beast at Front Room Gallery

Review in WG WIlliamsburg Greenpoint News+Arts

Review in WG by Trent Morse for Must-See Exhibitions in March for Kill the Beast at Front Room Gallery

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.