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Valerie Hegarty, Watermelon Tongue, canvas, stretcher, acrylic paint, modeling paste, paper, glue, foil, gauze, glue, thread, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is one watermelon you do not want to eat\u2026or be eaten by.\u00a0 A giant lick of modeling paste extends from Valerie Hegarty\u2019s repulsive \u2018Watermelon Tongue,\u2019 curbing the appetite and recalling \u2018Little Shop of Horrors,\u2019 one inspiration for this painting.\u00a0 Hegarty was also thinking of last year\u2019s news reports of exploding watermelons in China, which were mistakenly sprayed with growth accelerator.\u00a0 Now do you want to know where your food comes from?\u00a0 (At Nichelle Beauchene Gallery<\/a> on the Lower East Side, through October 20th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one watermelon you do not want to eat\u2026or be eaten by.\u00a0 A giant lick of modeling paste extends from Valerie Hegarty\u2019s repulsive \u2018Watermelon Tongue,\u2019 curbing the appetite and recalling \u2018Little Shop of Horrors,\u2019 one inspiration for this painting.\u00a0 Hegarty was also thinking of last year\u2019s news reports of exploding watermelons in China, which … <\/p>\n

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