Emily Roz
New York artist showing contemporary drawings and paintings.
Walk of Fame at Front Room Gallery
Mini Explosion
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.