• I come to please
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 137.25x83.75 in.
  • Candy Candy Candy's Floss
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 105.5x72.25 in.
  • Doll Doll
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 94x53.8 in.
  • Flower Blooming, Venus Screaming
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 72x105 in.
  • Golden Shower
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 77.25x111.75 in.
  • Head screaming, Howling, Laughing
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 62.5x97 in.
  • Milky way oh me oh my
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 78.5x97 in.
  • Never felt so Good
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 76x123 in.
  • Nothing can save you now
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 50.75x60.75 in.
  • Now you see meat, now you don't
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 66.75x97.75 in.
  • Thin little wrists
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 82x94 in.
  • Thy Kingdom come
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 77.5x99.5 in.
  • It didn't happen like that
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 74.75x94 in.
  • The shape of things to come
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 82.25x59 in.
  • Well then there now
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 63.25x84 in.
  • What do you want
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 78.75x97.75 in.
  • You wish
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 97.75x78.75 in.
  • Look me up look me down
    Oil and household paint on canvas
  • Three Two One
    Oil and household paint on canvas, 76.75x91 in.

NICOLAS ALVIS VEGA
NYMPHAE NYMPHALIDAE

On view: 9 March - 6 April, 2013

 Opening: Friday 8 March, 6 - 9pm


This spring Nicholas Alvis Vega will show 14 brand new works at Kenny Schachter/ROVE. Each oil painting is a copy of an iconic work of art such as Reuben’s and Rembrandts that have been defaced, and question the legacy of male gaze in art, reflecting an attitude of women in fashion and advertising today.

The introduction of a modern ‘pin up’ into the compositions references the Virgin/Whore paradigm and the irony that women of ‘ill repute’, serving as models for artists, and often immortalised as Goddesses and saints.

Each imitation work of art has been vandalised with materials such as luminescent, acrylic finger paint, black gloss house paint, glitter glue and gold leaf, producing primitive bi-fold abstracts giving reason behind the exhibition title: “Nymphae” being female sexual organs and “Nymphalidae” the markings on butterfly wings.

About the artist:

An artist of many different mediums; there is a common theme and influence traced throughout Alvis Vega’s work; including interior and furniture design, sculpture and photography.

Alvis Vega is deliberately vague; his name is not his legal name, he has shown under several different aliases, in different places and at different times. Brought up in East Africa of English parents, Nicholas Alvis Vega steadfastly refuses to give any dates. Today he lives between his London studio and spends part of each year between here, his home in Jaipur, India and Marrakech, Morocco. He has also previously lived in Kenya, Mexico, New York, Los Angeles, and West Texas.

As a teenager he will admit to having been thrown out of a London art school for activities incompatible with the reputation of the establishment in question; the specific reason is that while undertaking a sculpture of a female crucifixion, he had taken a series of body casts, on the college premises, of his underage girlfriend, the woman who remains to be his partner to this very day. He was also expelled from his school for submitting a series of drawings showing the crucified Jesus as a naked hermaphrodite to the school magazine.



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