Over the Influence, Hong Kong is pleased to present Smoke and Mirrors, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Rosson Crow. The exhibition will be on view from 24 October – 21 November, 2020, with an opening day on October 24 from 11 AM – 7 PM. This will be Rosson Crow’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Click on the works below for more details and to view the works on a wall.
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Rosson Crow
Smoke and Mirrors, 2020Smoke and Mirrors is an extension of previous bodies of work by Crow rooted in histories latent with nostalgia and anxiety. The hostile, distressed, and unequivocally apocalyptic mood she summons in her new paintings suggests that the anxieties of history have only been exacerbated today. When people look back at Crow’s work created in the year 2020, they might be struck by a romanticized yearning for a past and present that never was. Time capsules of the contemporary moment, Crow’s paintings cultivate a sense of time collapsing and an inescapable pattern of destruction.
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Rosson Crow
Fire Begets Fire, 2020This year of the pandemic, economic collapse, political strife, and environmental disaster are equally glossed over and accentuated in Crow's psychological scenes - luxury juxtaposed with austerity, emptiness with excess. In Fire Begets Fire, a pristine garden lagoon is trashed and burned, a roman bust floating in the polluted water as acid-colored smoke plumes into the sky.
