BIO
Eve Ozer entered this world in a rebellious state of mind.
She was born in 1951 in Wiesbaden, Germany. When she was four, her mother married an American soldier and when she was nine, they immigrated to the United States.
Scraps of paper and pencils were her first tools. Through independent study and workshops Eve found her niche in collage, mixed media and painting.
After years in the corporate world, Eve now devotes her days in her studio in the Chicago area.
Artist Statement
I remember the first time I died. I was 12. I understood I needed to break from the applied and determined behavior expected of me and fly, however foolish, into the unknown of myself.
I began reading Issac Asimov and Edgar Rice Burroughs, writers who, through their fantastical stories, opened a new world of thinking. I began to question and wonder. I stopped looking through the eyes of my parents and opened my own.
As a child I lived in my head, telling stories to my imaginary mirror twin, Ila. Today I splash my stories across canvas and paper.
I have a glorious impulse to fly / to stretch / to greet the mysterious mirage, greater than the sum of all my human efforts.
Art is my oasis. It flows from known and unknown sources recognized in my deepest subconsciousn. Pluming those strata is the marketplace of my dreams and imagination.
I believe we all came here with a unique song to sing; we just need the courage to open our throats.
Selected Solo Exhibits
2022 Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
2020 Hinsdale Library, Hinsdale, IL
2017 North Shore Art League, Winnetka, IL
2016 Hilton-Asmus Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2016 North Gallery, Downers Grove Library, Downers Grove, IL
Selected Group Shows
2024 The Mind's Eye, Tall Grass Gallery, Park Forest, IL
2024 Beautiful & Strange Fragmentation, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Cincinnati Art Club ViewPoint 55, Juried Exhibition, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2023 Feminine to the Core, salonlb gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 DADA, The Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
2023 Ten by Ten, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Cincinnati Art Club ViewPoint 54, Juried Exhibition, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Internal Dialogues, Collage Artists of America Juried Exhibit, Online
2022 Acrylic International Biennial Juried Exhibit, Kenosha Museum, Kenosha, WI
2021 Big City vs Small Town, Juried Exhibition, MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2021 Small Works, 43rd Annual Juried Show, Harper Collage, Palatine, IL
2021 Cut & Paste, Dan Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 New Work By Gallery Artists, Gallery 1871 (formerly Chicago Art Source) Chicago, IL
2021 Imaginary Travel an online exhibit hosted by Jen Tough Gallery & Artists Alliance
2019 35th Annual National Collage Society Juried Exhibit, Cummings Art Gallery, Erie, PA
2019 Paper In Particular; 40th Annual Juried Exhibit; Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia, MO
2018 Continuity; Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI
2017 History Of The Chess Queen; Hilton-Asmus Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2017 Opposites Attract; Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI
2017 Beneath the Surface; The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2017 Winter Show; Elmhurst Artists’ Guild, Elmhurst, IL
2016 Inspired by Antiquity; Hilton-Asmus Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2015 unchARTed; Motor Row Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Balanced-Unbalanced; Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Motion; Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL
Education
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Smyrna Beach, FL
Ahaa School of the Arts, Telluride, CO
Cullowhee Mountain Arts, Sylva, NC
Taos, NM
The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC
Eve Ozer’s work is in private collections throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. And part of the permanent collection of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL. She has received numerous awards including Best Of Show and First Place.