Looking through the Acid Glass
I don’t believe I know of anyone else who has romanticized Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.[2 Dimensionally that is] It’s some of the best work I can recall seeing from my generation. I cant help but be jealous of someone, just a year over my head, who has done work like this.-
Rosson Crow makes large-scale paintings of decadent interiors from a bygone era. Hotels, saloon bars and lounges loom large in the work, which is distinguished by a luscious palette and exuberant application of paint.
The spaces depicted in Crow’s work are of mythical or mythologized locations, devoid of people but with implications of recent habitation, as if capturing the moment after a party has ended. Her paintings are inspired by diverse references – Baroque and Rococo interior design, cowboy culture, Las Vegas architecture, theatre and music –their dominant scale pulling the viewer into the psychological space of the spectacle. The paintings oscillate between celebration and desolation, with extravagant ornate features appearing to collapse and drip across the pictorial plane.
http://www.canadanewyork.com/artist/rosson_crow/
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
So rad, the colors, the drips, the reminders of a psychedelic youth…the 2nd pic means business with the busyness, Thanks Amber!