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Valerie Hegarty (born 1967) is an American painter, sculptor, and installation artist. [1] [2] She is known for irreverent, often critical works that replicate canonical paintings, furnishings, and architectural spaces from American or personal history undergoing various processes of transformation.
Jul 15, 2013 · Explosive Paintings Reach Beyond the Traditional Frame. In these artworks by artist Valerie Hegarty, it looks like the walls have exploded with an array of fruits, foliage, and decay. At first glance, one might think they are viewing art that has been destroyed.
Statement Valerie Hegarty is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work frequently employs critical engagement with American History and addresses themes of memory, place and art historical legacy through painting, sculpture and large-scale installations. View fullsize. Interview with Valerie Hegarty. Written by Andreana Donahue Hi Valerie.
Valerie Hegarty Biography. Exploring issues of memory, place, and history, Valerie Hegarty creates paintings, sculptures, and installations from a range of materials including foam core, ceramics, and papier-mâché.
2021-2020. 2021-2020. 2019
Jan 14, 2019 · In Valerie Hegarty ’s work, autobiography, history, and art history merge seamlessly into engaging installations with a distinct sense of place – visceral and subtle, layered and focused. An inquisitive rigor runs through her work, stirring in the viewer an appetite for more.
For Valerie Hegarty, the joy of her work lies in its destruction rather than its making. Centring her practice on the politics of the American myth, Hegarty’s canvases and sculptures replicate emblems of frontier ethos - colonial furniture, antique dishware, and heroic paintings of landscapes and national figures only to demolish them by ...
