Fabulous Crow
Buck Owens Trophy Room
Five Minutes Late and Two Bucks Short at the Cha Cha
Live in the Black Pussy
Rosson Crow is known for her exuberant large-scale depictions of nostalgia-laden interiors that blend historical allusion and theatrical illusion. The paintings evoke the good times of yesteryear. Her paintings are inspired by diverse references – Baroque and Rococo interior design, cowboy culture, Las Vegas architecture, theatre and music.
Crow says she paints in large strokes and chooses a frenetic palette of colours for the performing aspects of painting. She couldn't couldn't be a country-western singer (her first choice) or an actress (her second); she had to go with her talent, which is painting.
She finishes her paintings by slinging red and white slashes of glossy enamel over the surface. These, she says, are "my strokes of bravado."
For her "Texas Crude" opening at White Cube, her London gallery, earlier this year, she wore 1880's
Deadwood attire, a cinched-waist, floor-length, proper Western schoolmarm dress. But she has also been known to don showgirl attire for first nights.
While she may not have known what she was going to say at her lecture a day before she took the stage, she had her frock picked out days in advance. Our kind of gal!
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