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Valerie Hegarty
Dead Dutch Flowers
2018

About the Item

Vanitas - a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death. Valerie Hegarty (b. 1967) created a series of ceramic and epoxy clay sculptures for Bloom & Gloom, a solo exhibition of her sculptures and large-scale paper wall installations, on view at Burning in Water New York from 8 November, 2018 to 5 January, 2019. The freestanding sculptures in Bloom & Gloom freely reference the 17th century Dutch genre of Vanitas painting transmuted into the medium of ceramics. Although the prototypical subject of tulips is manifested in varying iterations, Hegarty inscribes contemporary anxieties regarding environmental loss, apocalyptic destruction, and illness into the works. "Dead Dutch Flowers" is a direct reference to a Dutch Vanitas painting. Colorful red, pink, and blue tulips spill out of their vase as if their parted petals are open mouths gasping for breath. Every element of the sculpture, from the snaking yellowing roots to the parched, cracked surface, indicates that the flowers have been subject to extreme heat and dryness. "Dead Dutch Flowers", like many of Hegarty's recent ceramics, addresses the impact of extreme weather effects caused by global warming. 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. Previous solo exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Marlborough Gallery, NY; Locust Projects, Miami; Museum 52, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Guild & Greyshkul, NY. She has completed public commissions for the High Line in NYC and the Brooklyn Museum. Hegarty's work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Saatchi Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Portland Museum of Art, the Tang Museum and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Hegarty received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received grants and awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation and Campari NY. She has completed residences at LMCC, Marie Walsh Sharpe, PS 122, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Smack Mellon, and she served as the first Andrew W. Mellon Arts and the Common Good Artist-in-Residence at Drew University.

Creator:
Valerie Hegarty (1967, American)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 12 in (30.48 cm)
Medium:
Ceramic,Glaze
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU81933864682

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