File:Valerie Hegarty Childhood Bedroom 2004.jpg

Installation by Valerie Hegarty, Childhood Bedroom (painted paper, glue, cardboard and fabric, 9' x 15' x 13', 2004.). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Valerie Hegarty's career in the early 2000s when she produced installations that integrated physical environments of the past—personal and public—into pristine gallery spaces. These works evoked themes of nostalgia, displacement, mortality, or emergent repressed forces, as in this work, a to-scale rendition of the perimeter of her childhood bedroom that over the course of the exhibition she peeled away, revealing layers of yellow, periwinkle blue and bubblegum pink representing iterations of the room’s décor. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and commissioned by major art institutions.

Artist Valerie Hegarty. Copyright held by the artist.

Valerie Hegarty

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work in Valerie Hegarty's career in the early 2000s: her installations exploring architecture, artifice, ephemerality and memory, often by resurrecting physical environments of the past through a process of layering illusionistic imagery on paper and then peeling it to expose strata, as in an archeological diagram. These works partially transformed gallery spaces, creating transitional spaces that integrated personal or public spaces (e.g., an aging hotel lobbies, a studio bathroom) into them, evoking senses of nostalgia, displacement, mortality, or emergent repressed forces. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this early stage and body of work, which brought Hegarty initial recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Hegarty's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Valerie Hegarty, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.