This Spring Nicholas Alvis Vega will show 14 brand new works at Rove Gallery, Hoxton Square.

 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.

9th March – 6th April, 2013.

Private View: 8th March, from 6pm 

Private view guest DJs are the wonderful Margot Bowman and Tree Carr.