Rosson Crow
Hotel and Lounge, Nov 10 – Dec 17, 2006

After painting for the last six months in Paris, the artist presents a show of large sized canvases that continue Ms. Crow’s investigation into the worship and horror of the architected and decorated. Be it in the spare modern international style or the ornamentation of European Rococo, these interiors are not built as structures but rather summoned by the artist for visitation. Crow’s spaces are colored with a fierce, determined hand; interiors and gardens are dreamt up and realized in the full technicolor of our sickest senses. These are paintings of places lived in to the point of saturation. They are supernatural spaces that overcome the viewer with a sense of architecture beyond living. This position is underscored by her design of a large carpet for the gallery to accompany the paintings. The carpet is based on the hall rug from Kubrick’s The Shining (the S pattern occurs in several of Ms. Crow’s works). This "art show as stage set" reminds us at once of the artificiality of the gallery structure and then again in its potential to dissolve away all that we know. We are very pleased to see these works together for Ms. Crow's second solo show at CANADA.

Rosson Crow has recently shown work in group and solo shows at Deitch Projects and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2006 and is currently participating in a one year residency at the Cites des Artes Internationale in Paris.

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