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Valerie Hegarty
Nighttime Fruit
2016

Name: Nighttime Fruit
Brand: Valerie Hegarty

$7,500List Price

About the Item

Throughout her career, Valerie Hegarty (b. 1967) has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, historical revisionism, nationalism and environmental degradation in her work. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy—artistic and otherwise. A series of sculptures of fantastical watermelons anchored the artist's solo show "American Berserk", which opened at Burning in Water New York in 2016. Hegarty was inspired to begin creating her watermelon sculptures after viewing footage of environmental mishaps in China and Mexico in which fields of watermelons were sprayed with the incorrect growth hormone, causing their pink insides to grow faster than their green rinds. The curious result was that the watermelons would spontaneously explode in the field. The indelible image of randomly combusting watermelons, both terrifying and darkly humorous, instigated further explorations of three-dimensional representations of the fruit in ceramic—at that time a new medium for Hegarty. In the artist’s hands, watermelons are imbued with a seemingly endless array of connotations. Watermelons, Hegarty has noted, are the most “bodily” of all fruits. Comparably-sized to a human head, their interiors are sanguinary. Strikingly corporal, Hegarty’s watermelon sculptures acquire a range of anthropomorphized elements that suggest the span of the human life cycle: slurping tongues, oozing surfaces, ribbed carcasses, gnashing teeth and lubricated sex organs. Simultaneously, the sculptures invoke broader themes from American history, including the Arcadian mythology of the nation’s founding and expansion and the malevolent racial stereotypes that American society has fitfully struggled to shed. "Nighttime Fruit" was exhibited at Burning in Water New York in the single artist show "American Berserk" (6 October 2016 - 28 January 2017) and at Burning in Water San Francisco (12 April - 18 July 2018).

Creator:
Valerie Hegarty (1967, American)
Creation Year:
2016
Dimensions:
Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 14 in (35.56 cm)
Medium:
Ceramic
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU81932542983

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