Emily Roz

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