Rosson Crow "Bowery Boys"

Exhibition catalogue Hardcover 100 pages Deitch Projects 2010 "Bowery Boys" by Rosson Crow March 2009 Text by Kathy Grayson   MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Rosson Crow’s exhibition of large-scale oil paintings explores the history of “bad boys” in underground art and as an agent of culture in New York. From the flamboyance of a wild-style bombed train pulling into a subway station in the 1980s to a haunting red opium den from Chinatown in the 1880s, Crow investigates the rebellious and lawless side of New York history. Rendered in hallucinatory layers of oil paints and washes, her theatrical confabulations collapse centuries and synthesize styles to reveal the nature of interior space and the affinities that align across time. One painting features a superimposition of the stained-glass windows of the gothic Bowery Mission onto the interior of its neighbor, the New Museum; a second pairs a vintage New York sex club, Plato’s Retreat, with the new Boom Boom Room and a Bruce Nauman neon; a