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The Arts Intel Report

Emily Roz: Tight Fit

Mar 20 – July 5, 2020
48 Hester St, New York, NY 10002, United States

Emily Roz’s vibrant oil paintings may leave you feeling slightly umoored. She creates a bright and upbeat dissonance. The female body parts she jigsaws into intensely colored and striped planes are at once familiar and abstract. The anonymous body in the paintings is actually hers, which brings to mind Christina Ramberg’s headless figures, or Maria Lassnig’s studies. Roz’s message is clear: She is simply a body, one that can be objectified. —E.C.

Emily Roz, “Tight Fight,” 2020. Courtesy of Front Room Gallery, New York.