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Former and Current Residents Valerie Hegarty and Dana Sherwood Exhibit at Mixed Greens Gallery
Former and Current Residents Dana Sherwood and Valerie Hegarty will be exhibiting a piece in End of Days at Mixed Greens Gallery from January 12th -February 11th, 2012 . Opening reception January 12th, 6-8pm.
End of Days at Mixed Greens Gallery
531 W 26th St, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10001
January12th – February 11th, 2012
With Jessica Cannon, Bonnie Collura, Erin Dunn, Susan Hamburger, Valerie Hegarty, Patrick Jacobs, Brian A.Kavanaugh, Sophia Narrett, Hilary Pecis, Seth Scantlen, Melanie Schiff, and Dana Sherwood.
This exhibition explores the notion of revelation—both apocalyptic and transcendent. Each artwork functions as a moment of suspended time, capturing the world in a state of silent reflection, imagined ecstasy, mangled deterioration, or a complicated combination of all three. In a nod to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and the dozens of end-of-the world scenarios circulating around the year 2012, this exhibition focuses on visual anxieties, and considers an end scenario that is for some a paradise, and for others a paradise lost.
A large-scale installation by Valerie Hegarty overtakes a portion of the front gallery and a seemingly long-neglected gallery wall succumbs to overgrowth. Tree branches, foliage, and water damage rupture and rot the artwork-adorned surface. In a similar depiction of growth and its aftermath, Dana Sherwood’s photographic series captures a picture-perfect tableau of cakes and pastries, floating on a pond. The viewer is given glimpses of the Dionysian banquet and subsequent deterioration. In addition, Sherwood presents a vitrine holding a decadent cake and its inhabitants—white mice. Over the course of the opening and then the entirety of the show, the mice will eat through the cake and transform its structure into a functional habitat. What remains of Hegarty’s and Sherwood’s worlds are clues to the overindulgence and exhilaration before collapse.
