Noche Crist

[1] Brought up by a delicate mother, Juliet, who suffered from ill health and her capricious aunt, Mamoutz, whose husband encouraged her to paint as a very young child, Noche survived two World Wars both in Bucharest and the Romanian countryside where the family had a small estate.

Working with acrylic paints on wooden cut-outs and transparent polyester resin small sculptures, Crist created images reminiscent of her childhood at her family's country estate, Ograda, near Ploiești.

In the summer of 2008 (May 27 through July 27), Independent Curator Vivienne M. Lassman presented the well-researched Noche Crist: A Romanian Revelation for the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.

Lassman recreated Noche’s pink boudoir installation in the center of this posthumous retrospective and incorporated edited video and audio DVDs of interviews with Crist and her friends.

Gallery 2112 owned by Brandon Webster in Washington, DC in May 2018 installed the artist's works in a show entitled "Noche Crist: Fantastical Visions" curated by Vivienne Lassman.

This consisted of silk screen and etched prints, resin statuettes (polyester prostitutes so named by the artist), cutouts and paintings and displayed salon style reminiscent of the way Noche hung her art in her home.