Eve Ozer

Playful Rogue

2016

Eve Ozer is a German contemporary painter, collagist and writer, residing in the greater Chicago area. She credits living in Germany, for the first nine years of her life, to giving her a broader view of the world. Coming from another country, at such a young age, she believes helped shape her into the artist she is today. She describes her paintings as visual sanctuaries. Ozer believes abstract painting is the voice of the soul and the language of intuition. She begins her painting process by making marks on the canvas and responding to them intuitively. She refers to this moment, as falling off the edge of unlimited possibilities. She enjoys using unorthodox painting implements, such as sticks dipped in paint and bowls scrappers to apply and move the paint around the canvas. Her favorite tool is a foam roller from the hardware store. She works in ink, acrylic, oil and cold wax, a cold encaustic technique where fine art wax is blended with oil paint, to create texture, translucence and luminosity. The floor of her studio is partially covered with raw canvas. This is where all the excess paints and inks get poured. After months of this process, the canvas begins to look interesting and eventually become finished paintings.