Emily Roz

Cannonball Press

The guys at Cannonball Press were kind enough to make a print for me. Hippos are sold out, but Tigers and Dinosaurs are still available. Thanks Mike and Martin!

Death By Mel in Time Out New York

Time Out New York New York ran this piece on Death By Mel:

Die another Day
Mad Mel’s violent tendencies are cataloged for gallerygoers.

As if Mel Gibson didn’t have enough to worry about, here’s another stain on his record: The overgrown altar boy has killed 144 people—on film, at least. Artist Emily Roz knows this because she witnessed them all while compiling images for Death by Mel, an ongoing display of Gibson’s homicidal screen shots at Williamsburg’s Front Room gallery. To assemble this chronologically-ordered exhibit, Roz was obligated to view the vast bulk of Gibson’s oeuvre, from 1977’s Summer City to 2004’s The Passion of the Christ (it’s director Gibson who hammers the stakes into Jesus’ hand). Here are a few facts that probably didn’t show up on the LAPD’s arrest report.—Erin Clements

Number of films Roz watched: 31
Cost of rentals and film: $528
Movie with highest body count: Braveheart (33)
People Mel kills by gunshot: 74
People Mel kills by knife or sword: 26
People Mel kills by head twist: 2
People Mel kills by ax: 2
People Mel kills by spike: 1
People Mel kills by poison: 1
People Mel kills with a piranha: 1
People Mel kills in What Women Want: 0
Times Roz was teased by local video clerks: 8
Times Bird on a Wire was already checked out at store: 3
Times viewers questioned the chronology of the exhibit: 4
Times Roz’s four-year-old son questioned value of project: 144
Months Roz’s husband banned her from using Netflix after project’s completion: 12

Death by Mel can be viewed at the Front Room (frontroom.org), 147 Roebling St in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Friday 18–Sunday 20.

Time Out New York / Issue 568 : Aug 17–23, 2006

Walk of Fame at Front Room Gallery

The Front Room Gallery presents
Walk of Fame
Friday May 12th-June 11th
Reception: Fri. May 12th, 7-9pm
hours: Fri-Sun 1-6pm
http://www.frontroom.org

The Front Room Gallery is proud to present “Walk of Fame,” featuring works by Emily Roz and Philip Simmons. “Walk of Fame” captures the glamour and slickness, the gratuity and sheen, the sex and violence that simultaneously seduces and repels us.

Emily Roz creates large grids of repeated motifs in American Cinema. Using Polaroid film Roz recaptures the look and experience of the image flickering on the screen: the car jumps, explosions, and two-second gratuitous nude scenes. Roz’s work documents and categorizes the reservoir of familiar repeated plot elements in the American cinema. Roz not only calls attention to the formulas of many movie genres, but also pinpoints the minute, titillating cinematographic fragments that make up the blockbuster Hollywood movie spanning multiple eras in American popular culture.

Philip Simmons, through his large, exceedingly glossy and monolithic silhouette sculptures taps into the grandiose archetype of the American Wild West. The sculptures adopt the visual language of western road signs of a bygone era of idealism, much like the famous Mobile gas Pegasus sign that Andy Warhol iconized. Spare, glossy, and minimal – like a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western movie – his works almost demand to be consumed by the viewer in an instant. 

Fountain New York

For Immediate Release:
Capla Kesting Fine Art, Front Room Gallery, and McCaig-Welles Gallery present:
Fountain
660 Twelfth Avenue, (across the street from the Armory show at Pier 90.)
Thursday March 9th—Sunday March 12th
Reception: Thursday March 9th, 5-10pm
Exhibition Hours 12-9pm
http://www.fountainexhibit.com
The avant-garde has always laid claim to history through its challenges and victories over the status quo. In the spirit of New York’s first Armory Show in 1913, three of Williamsburg’s most brash and cutting-edge galleries, Capla Kesting, Front Room, and McCaig-Wells have collaborated to mount “Fountain” their own “Salon de Refuse.” They have selected a spacious street level special-event hall across Twelfth Avenue from Pier 90 in direct confrontation with, and running for the entire duration of the Armory Show.

It is entirely appropriate that “Fountain” (the title Duchamp gave to a “ready-made” urinal) is the chosen moniker for this independent, experimental, mini art fair. It is the Duchampian spirit of philosophic irony, and aesthetic shifting as well as the provocations to institutionalized middle-class mores that have established Williamsburg as the hottest of hot-beds in New York’s world class art scene.

Come and experience the unfiltered, uncouth and enterprising excitement of “Fountain.” See advanced art as it was meant to be seen, without blinders, without “taste merchants,” straight from the source.

Capla Kesting Fine Art
Lincoln Capla, Dan Edwards, Christopher Gwyn, Margret Inga, David Kesting, Martina Kubinyi, Brian Leo, Ric Librizzi, Travis Lindquist, Brielle Maxwell, Morgan Russell, Jennifer Sanchez, Antony Zito

The Front Room Gallery
Thomas Broadbent, Erik Guzman, Sean Hemmerle, Loren Munk, Melissa Pokorny, Emily Roz, Sante Scardillo, Patricia Smith, and Kathleen Vance.

McCaig-Welles Gallery
Shepard Fairey, Doze Green, Greg Lamarche, Andrew Schoultz, David Stoupakis, The Goldmine Shithouse, Trevor Guthrie

For more information please contact:
Daniel Aycock
(718) 782-2556
or email us here