Greater Than Or Equal To » painting http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog A blog that's ≥ the best of you. Fri, 21 May 2010 21:14:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Valerie Hegarty http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/10/valerie-hegarty/ http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/10/valerie-hegarty/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:21:06 +0000 Alan Trotter http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/?p=773 I could get a lot of uncomplicated pleasure just looking at this one image:

Valerie Hegarty, 'Rothko Sunset' 2007

But I think there’s more to Valerie Hegarty’s work than just the welcome, sadistic satisfaction of seeing bad things find Rothko.

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Valerie Hegarty, 'Cracked Canyon' 2007

Valerie Hegarty, 'Niagra Falls' 2007

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They’re beautiful in their own right and tense with an appealing antagonism. And  I love how that last image, in the context of the other work, neatly suggests two contradictory thoughts: tracing a visual similarity between the growth of roots and the destruction of tattered remains, and placing conventional art as itself the destruction of something prior.

See more at Guild & Greyshkul and The Saatchi Gallery.

(via Coudal)

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