The Market Presents: Tom Parish and John Hegarty Revisited

April 18, 2008 - May 24, 2008

“The Market Presents: John Hegarty and Tom Parish Revisited” is a special feature of the Detroit Artists Market 75th Anniversary season. It honors two artists who are still actively listening to their muses. Both embody the soul of Detroit’s art culture. It also gives DAM an opportunity to remember and honor Mary Denison , who in 1982 began her tenure as DAM’s first full time Art Director. A catalog will document the exhibition. The original version of this show was the second in a series Ms. Denison initiated to recognize mature artists of stature in the community who had no local venue for their art.

“This exhibition of recent work by John Hegarty and Tom Parish is inspired by another that took place a little more than 20 years ago also at Detroit Artists Market,” writes art critic Vince Carducci in the exhibition’s catalog. “But the current show isn’t an historical re-creation, an attempt to relive past glory. Instead, it marks yet another chapter in the careers of two of the city’s most distinguished artists. The point isn’t to cast Hegarty and Parish as breaking new ground, but to present as them digging deeper into terrain each already knows very, very well. In that regard, it simply reflects what it is that master artists are all about.”