Best known for her seductive candy-colored history paintings, Rosson Crow presents a new body of lush interior and landscape works for Smoke and Mirrors at Over the Influence, Hong Kong. The exhibition is marked by sickly-sweet acid-toned washes over layered photo transfers, oil paint, and spray paint with images bleeding in and out of one another like a melted amassment of mementos. Crow’s palette of corrosive colors twists her compositions toward abstraction, heightening their hallucinatory perspectives. The commanding presence of her works is emphasized by not only the physical scale but also the theatricality of the compositions. Both draw the viewer into the frame as if becoming part of the scene, but the closer the viewer comes the more the illusion is disrupted by the painterly presence of Crow’s surfaces – the drips and splashes which jolt the viewer back into the gallery.

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