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Rosson Crow makes large-scale paintings of decadent interiors from bygone eras. Hotels, saloons, and lounges feature prominently in her work, which is also distinguished by a luscious palette and exuberant application of paint.

The spaces in Crow's work are mythical and/or mythologized locations, devoid of people but with evidence of recent habitation, as if capturing the moment after a party has ended. Her paintings have diverse influences — Baroque and Rococo interior design, cowboy culture, Las Vegas architecture, theatre, and music — and their dominant scale pulls viewers into the psychological space of the spectacle. The paintings oscillate between celebration and desolation, with extravagant features appearing to collapse and drip across the pictorial plane.

Rosson Crow was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1982, and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004 and her MFA from Yale University in 2006. Crow completed a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2006 and has had solo exhibitions at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; CANADA, New York; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.

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