Valerie Hegarty

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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

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.

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.

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.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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