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 they immigrated to the United States when she was nine.
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
My work is an act of storytelling / a gesture of intimacy / a psychological disrobing / an imaginary conversation.
The threads that weave my work together are beauty, fantasy, curiosity and imagination.
When I begin making a piece, I have no idea where it will lead. The task is to keep my ego quiet, my mind clear and my heart open, in a process of exploration, experimentation and letting go.
I discover tools for problem solving in the quiet / jigsaws for my mind / an agility course for my brain / little grey cells lighting up like a carousel.
When successful, I create a place where you can lose yourself for a while, tuck the troubles of the world away and just dream.
Art making is a collaboration; I am here to show you the beginning of the story, I invite you to create the ending.
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Born 1951
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.