Critical Praise For Richard Hagerty

Richard Hagerty is “strongly influenced by the works of Heironymous Bosch, a Flemish artist best known for his extraordinary interpretations of Biblical themes.It is in Bosch’s visionary worlds of human, animal, and vegetable creatures that we find perhaps the closest correspondence to the inventiveness and fantastic symbolism of Hagerty’s oeuvre.  Likewise, Hagerty’s concern with creating a dynamic formal structure and his bold gift for color reflect the influence of this late Gothic master.”                                    
            --Roberta Kefalos, art critic and historian

 Richard “Duke” Hagerty is a paradoxical multi-dimensional artist—a plastic surgeon by profession who paints from his dreams in a style reminiscent of surrealists like Yves Tanguy or Salvadore Dali.  Yet Hagerty is refreshingly catholic and non-doctrinaire in terms of the genesis of his whimsical subject matter.”
            --David Cleveland, writer, novelist, regular contributor to ART NEWS 

Richard “Duke” Hagerty paints the world of dreams.  In the tradition of the surrealist movement of the 1920s and 1930’s…he captures the whimsical fantasies and random expression of thought…in the tradition of Paul Klee and Joan Miro.”                                   
            --Angela D. Mack, Director, Gibbes Museum of Art
 

Select Solo Exhibitions 

2008                 Corrigan Gallery, Charleston, SC

2003                 Charleston City Gallery, Charleston, SC

1991                 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

1990                 Jan Goin Gallery, Charleston, SC

1988                 Highland Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1984                 Charleston City Gallery, Charleston, SC

1984                 Jan Goin Gallery, Charleston, SC

1983                 The Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA

1982                 The Stanley and Schenck Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1981                 Kraskin/Mitchell Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1980                 Kraskin Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1979                 Kraskin Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Select Group Exhibitions 

2008                 Corrigan Gallery, Charleston, SC  

2008                 The Gallery at Four India Street, Nantucket, MA

2008                 Kulture Klash, Charleston, SC

2007                 Corrigan Gallery, Charleston, SC

2007                 The Sophia Institute, Mosaics of Mary, Charleston, SC

2006                 The Sophia Institute, Mosaics of Mary, Charleston, SC

2004                 Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

2002                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Cool August Moon, Charleston, SC

2001                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Charleston, SC

2001                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Paintings, Charleston, SC

2001                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Gallery Artists, Charleston, SC

2001                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, SC

2001                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, SC

2001                 Episcopal High School, Two-Person Exhibition Alexandria, VA

2001                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Charleston, SC

2000                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, Selected Works, Charleston, SC

2000                 Tippy Stern Fine Art, In the Shadow of the Flag, Charleston, SC

1984                 Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

1984                 Georgia Southern College, Two-Person Exhibition Statesboro, GA

1984 & ‘82       The Piedmont Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

1981                 Gibbes Museum of Art, Two-Person Exhibition, Charleston, SC

1981                 Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

Distinctions 

Official Piccolo Spoleto 25^th Anniversary Poster Image, 2008

The Aesthetic Journal, Cover Image, 2002

Painting for Charleston Ballet Theatre, Invitation Cover Image, 2001

Official Piccolo Spoleto Poster Image, Juried Selection, 1990

Official Piccolo Spoleto Poster Image, Juried Selection, 1984

Atlanta Weekly (Sunday Magazine for Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Image, Atlanta GA, 1984

Atlanta Medicine, Cover Image, 1983

Charleston Magazine, Cover Image, Charleston, SC, 1983 

Notable Press

Poole, Olivia. ART Magazine, “The Duke of Painting,” Spring 2008.

Dakers, Beryl. South Carolina Educational Television, “Verve,” 2003.

Staff Writer. The Albany Journal, “Water Colors on Show at Museum,” April 8, 2003.

Hulett, Molly. Charleston Magazine, “Dreamcatcher: Dr. Richard Hagerty Captures his Vivid Dreams on Canvas,” May/June 2002.

Rhodes, Kristen. City Paper, “Local Yokels,” 2001.

Smith, Bruce. The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, “Look Away               No More,” 2000.

Thompson, Bill. The News and Courier, “Young Professionals Find Escape through Alter Egos,” 1998.

Percy, Susan. Atlanta Magazine, “And Van Gogh?,” January 1998.

Babcock, Carl. The Post and Courier, May 20, 1994.

Thompson, Bill. The Post and Courier, “High Profile: Renaissance Man Melds Realms of Art and Medicine,         ,” 1990.

Brazzell, Dawn. The News and Courier and Evening Post, July 23, 1989.

Off Hours Magazine, 1989.

Dakers, Beryl. South Carolina Educational Television, “A Profile of Richard Hagerty for SCETV,”                October 2, 1986.
 

Waring, Thomas. Post and Courier, “From Atlanta to the Sea: Charlestonians Come Home,”                 December 9, 1984.
 

Street, Barbara Gervais. Atlanta Weekly (The Atlanta Journal Constitution), “Back to the Old South,”           October 10, 1984. 

Sherbert, Linda. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 27, 1984.

Schmidt, John. Savannah News Press, “Hagerty and Seuss: Mindscape Artists,” March 25, 1984. 

McDowell, Elsa. The Post and Courier, Hagerty Committed to Medicine and Art, 1984.

Hagerty, Richard. Atlanta Medicine, “Visual Art and Medicine,” 1983.

Staff Writer. The Albany Herald, “Hagerty Paints Dreams,” April 7, 1983.

PACE Magazine, (In-flight magazine of Piedmont Airlines) “Photographs of Artwork,” March 1983.

Weil, Debbie. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Physicians Heals Himself with Paints and Canvas,”              July 8, 1981.
 

Burnett, W.C. The Atlanta Journal, “Surgeon Artists Looks to Wild Dreams for Ideas for Painting,”                 August 13, 1980.