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