Christine Major draws us into a world in which the law of the jungle is even stronger than in her past animal universes. With Ninfa Moderna, Major focuses on the changing representation of the nymph, appearing as a Renaissance Venus or a Baroque martyr, she materializes under Manet’s brush as a low class prostitute, under Tintoretto’s as raped Lucrecia.
Christine Major’s paintings protagonists are the subjects of sequestration. The mistreated nymph lives with the memory of the nymphet that she once was. The phantom of a Lolita robbed of her childhood, and brought up in a lonely world, in spaces inhabitable except by today’s abused spouse.
(from gallery press release)

Galerie Donald Browne
space 528
Christine Major
Ninfa Moderna
February 20 – March 20, 2010
Venissage: February 20, 2010, 4:00pm
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