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On View> Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories at The Brooklyn Museum

On View> Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories at The Brooklyn Museum

Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories
The Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
Through December

Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories is part of a series at the Brooklyn Museum that asks artists to stage the museum’s Period Rooms with site-specific art. In Hegarty’s work, featured in the Cupola House parlor and the dining room, she explores themes of colonization, Manifest Destiny, and repressed histories. Her display in the Cupola House includes a Native American patterned rug and portraits of George Washington and an anonymous Native American Chief. The rug looks to be tattered with unkempt plants and roots growing over it and the portraits appear to be engaged with one another. In the dining room, 19th-century still-life paintings come to life with fruit overflowing from their frames and being attacked by black three-dimensional crows, referencing Alfred Hitchcock and segregation, among other cultural themes.


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