Hegarty's installation resonates with psychoanalytic theory, Catholic guilt, and Marxist analysis, all of which at one time or another were meant to save us from ourselves, if not each other.

Saul Ostrow, Art in America

Hegarty makes new things and transforms old ones. His work focuses on exchanges like aggression, commerce, play, attention or love. He stages intersubjectivities and their relation to the institutions of public life.

David Humphrey, catalog essay

Hegarty’s large “Untitled” installation (2008) is witty and well choreographed. A teddy bear walks a tight rope with a cloth sack on its head. Underneath a toy-scaled missile is constructed of banker boxes. It is seemingly being filmed by miniature 1930s Hollywood-style movie cameras. Figures on wooden, children’s pull-toys reveal bolts behind the figurative facades. On the wall, small flames peak out. The work’s bare bulb lighting augments the starkness and adds drama. It’s easy to spot subplots everywhere in the installation. The narrative possibilities go on and on.

Hrag Vartanian