nycartscene:

Opens Tonight, Apr 5, 6-8p:

”Altered States”
 Valerie Hegarty

Marlborough Chelsea, 545 W25nd St., NYC

Hegarty’s depiction of destruction is a departure point to examine larger issues of erasure, repression, the uncanny, metamorphosis, death and rebirth. Hegarty painstakingly crafts her works from foam core, papier mâché and ink-jet prints on canvas that she then paints, carves, twists, drapes, amputates, and grafts to create mutated originals where the fictional disasters behave as a catalyst for the works coming back to life. - thru May 5