Paintings
Still Lives with Crows
Archival paper, acrylic paint, glue, foam core
Each painting approx 4’ x 4’
2006
The Armory Bowl by Ben Davis (artnet.com)...Similar combinations of darkness and excess stuck out elsewhere. .... and, most pleasingly allegoric of all, Valerie Hegarty’s Still lives with Crows at Guild & Greyshkul, a paper assemblage resembling a flock of crows tearing bloody hunks of meat out of a painting of a steak -- a goof on the old Greek myth of Zeuxis and Parrhasios, and a picture of image culture cannibalizing itself.