Posing in front of her painting Pop Shop artist Rosson Crow wears custom designed gown by Zac Posen
It’s nice to see that painters are getting dressed up for their openings!
Last night’s event at Deitch for Rosson Crow’s new show Bowery Boys definitely brought back the ’80s. The minimal large open white box on Wooster Street in Soho synthesized by Crow’s nostalgia almost made you see ghosts. Receiving an invitation from our friend Alexxa, Chris and I were among the fashionable art crowd.
Crow’s subject matter captures the icongraphy of spaces and districts void of the people who created or inhabited them. Her large scale oils of the Bowery explored the history of “bad boys” in underground art and as an agent of culture in New York City. Most striking about Crow’s work is the renewed interest in actual paint. Experiencing virtual and minimal installations, art has been abstracted and reduced making brushes, strokes and imagery feel human.
Rosson Crow Bowery Boys is on view at Deitch until March 27 at 18 Wooster Street.
Rosson Crow, Untiltled (opium den), 2009, Oil, acrylic and enamel on canvas
Rosson Crow, The Pop Shop, 2010, Oil, acrylic and enamel on canvas
Rosson Crow, Barber Shop, 2009-2010, Oil, acrylic and enamel on canvas
