Valerie Hegarty

Lahir:
1967
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American
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APT New York
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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • The former Yale School of Art dean is considered a foremost expert on the work of sculptor Louise Bourgeois.

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  • In 2013 Valerie Hegarty displayed her unique reverence for history by recreating Rembrandt Peale’s 1824 portrait of George Washington without his head in the Cupola House Parlor of the Brooklyn Museum. In another early American period room, Hegarty presented a sculpture of a flock of crows devouring a pile of fruit that had spilled out of a still-life painting. Through these interventions, Hegarty used satirical means to construct a de-sanctified view of America’s past.

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  • Rotting, wounded, smiling—watermelons, in Valerie Hegarty’s latest exhibition of paintings and sculptures, are depicted as sentient objects: carnal, threatening. Several wedges of the fruit, done in ceramics, rest on a plinth, their pink flesh resembling gums and growing teeth, tongues, ribs, stalagmites, barnacles. They make one think of the chemically modified watermelons that spontaneously exploded across fields in China in 2011—a warning about the perils of mutant capitalism.

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  • In 2013 Valerie Hegarty displayed her unique reverence for history by recreating Rembrandt Peale’s 1824 portrait of George Washington without his head in the Cupola House Parlor of the Brooklyn Museum.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • At Locust Projects, Valerie Hegarty contentedly surveys her installation, which resembles the aftermath of a wrecking ball's crash through the wall

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  • At Hyperallergic, Thomas Micchelli still has Casualism on the brain.

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  • The artwork of Valerie Hegarty almost seems to hover between two worlds: those of art and real life. Much of Hegarty’s work appears to begin with

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  • Valerie Hegarty’s Alternative Histories was installed at the Brooklyn Museum in one of their Period Rooms. Hegarty’s site-specific installations toy

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  • At Locust Projects, Valerie Hegarty contentedly surveys her installation, which resembles the aftermath of a wrecking ball's crash through the wall

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  • At Hyperallergic, Thomas Micchelli still has Casualism on the brain.

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  • Brooklyn artist Valerie Hegarty created a series of installations in two of the period rooms of the Brooklyn Museum, the latest in a series of such

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  • There is a lot to see in the art-world as we highlight 10 exhibitions opening this week. From Valerie Hegarty at the Brooklyn Musem to Anish Kapoor in Berlin, here are a few exhibitions opening in New York this week.

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  • Marlborough Chelsea presents Altered States, a solo exhibition of new paintings, sculptures and installation by Valerie Hegarty, at the gallery

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  • Art collecting can quickly become an expensive addiction. But what do collectors do to get their art fix while waiting for their next coveted pieces to become available? Many turn to multiples and editions as a way to not only beef up their collections aesthetically, but to also infuse their passion for art to the utilitarian facets of life. Like prints, multiples have carved a niche into the art market...

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  • We asked a number of artists, art writers and curators to provide you with a well-informed spectrum of Brooklyn-centric exhibitions and events to look forward to in 2013. Mark their expert words and fill your agendas accordingly.

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  • We’re accustomed to porticoed Greek temple-style museums, white-walled galleries, conspicuous label texts, a high level of organization

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BIOGRAFI

Valerie Hegarty received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago in 2002; a BFA in Illustration (with Distinction) from Academy of Art College in San Francisco in 1995; and a BA in Studio Art from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont in 1989. Selected solo exhibitions include PAINT, Saatchi Gallery, London (Upcoming 2009); Uncharted, Albany Art Museum, NY, (Upcoming September 2009); Toil and Trouble, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX (2009); Finally Utopic, Pocket Utopia, NY (2009); View From Thanatopsis at Museum 52 in London (2007); Seascape at Guild & Greyshkul in New York (2006); Landscaping at Guild & Greyshkul in New York (2005); and 12 x 12 Room at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2003). Selected group exhibitions include On Being an Exhibition at Artists Space in New York (2007); Denial is a River at Sculpture Center in New York (2006); Greater New York at PS1/MoMA in New York (2005). Valerie Hegarty lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.


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