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Front Room: Emily Roz : Kill the Beast - 27 Feb 2009 to 29 Mar 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Emily Roz �Kill the Beast� February 27-March 29th Reception Fri. Feb. 27th, 7-9 pm Viewing hours: Fri-Sun 1-6 and by appt. The Front Room Gallery is proud to present "Kill the Beast," a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Emily Roz. 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. Front Room March Events: Join Front Room Gallery at Bridge Art Fair: March 5-8 at 222 12th avenue The Waterfront building AKA "the Tunnel" Opening Night Thurs. March 5th, 7-10 pm March 6th and 7th from 12-8 March 8th 12-7 Chain of Love performance event Saturday March 7th Naval Cassidy at the Front Room gallery: March 7th from 9-10pm Through his Special blend of video performance, Instant Cinema, Naval Cassidy pulls delirious visions out of discarded broken objects, simply by placing each one under the watchful eye of his surveillance camera. As part of "Chain of Love," a performance/event night presented by galleries in Southside Williamsburg Saturday, March 7th from 8pm to midnight. Including: Klaus Von Nichtssagend, Dam Stuhltrager, Journal gallery, Parker's Box, Sideshow, and Momenta Art. Brooklyn Armory Night On Saturday, March 7th, we will be open late, come and see Naval Cassidy�s performance at 9:00 and enjoy the work of Emily Roz late into the evening. Shuttle buses will be available from the Armory Art Fair to Brooklyn starting at 6:00pm, there will be tours, events, openings and parties throughout Williamsburg. WGA galleries, in partnership with Armory Week, will open their doors late into the night. Brooklyn Street Art WGA tour Saturday March 7th Join veteran street art photographer Rebecca Fuller and Steven P. Harrington, editor and author of BrooklynStreetArt.com on a fast paced tour of the "Gallery of the Streets". Bring your sneakers and your questions to catch current work by about 40 street artists like Aiko, Faile, Dan Witz, Robots Will Kill, Anthony Lister, Cake, Aakash Nihalani, Mike Marcus, Dark Clouds, Shepard Fairey, c215, Billi Kid, Dain, Imminent Disaster and many more! Starting at the Front Room Gallery at 7:00 Meredith Cole March 13th 7-9 A NIGHT OF MURDER, MAYHEM, MYSTERY AND ART Join the Front Room gallery and Merdith Cole for to launch �Posed for Murder� a murder mystery set in Williamsburg�s art gallery community. Meridith Cole�s sleuth in �Posed for Murder� is art photographer who specializes in murder recreation photographs. She convinces her friends to pose for her in her film noir style pictures, and she is excited to finally have her first show. But she is horrified when the police show up to inform her that someone is killing her models just like her photographs. |
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