Julie Heffernan Paintings
American, b. 1956
Julie Heffernan (b. 1956) is an American painter whose artwork has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist." Portraiture is a dominant subject in Heffernan’s painting, even while she also reflects on environmental, (art) historical, feminist, literary, social, and political subjects.
Heffernan was raised in Northern California, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and painting from University of California at Santa Cruz, and earned a Master of Fine Arts at Yale School of Art. She is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University and Co-founder of the journal Painters on Paintings. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
In 2011, Heffernan was elected a National Academician to the National Academy of Design in New York and in 2014, to the Board of Governors. She is a 2017 Fellow of the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; was awarded the Meridian Scholar Artist-In-Residence Fellowship from the University of Tampa in Florida and was the featured artist for the 2017 MacDowell Colony. In 2013, Heffernan was awarded a Milton And Sally Avery Fellowship at MacDowell and in 2012, she was invited to be the Lee Ellen Fleming Artist-In-Residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 2010, she was the Commencement Speaker for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 2009, she was the featured artist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, a Fulbright-Hayes grant to Berlin, Heffernan was also a nominee for the "Anonymous Was A Woman" award. Since 1999, Heffernan has had more than 50 solo exhibitions at museums and other venues across the United States and abroad. Her work is represented in 25 museum and institutional collections.to
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Artist: Julie Heffernan
Spill (Laocoön)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait as Decoy, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2005-2006
By Julie Heffernan
Located in Orange, CA
Self Portrait as Decoy, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2005-2006
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 62 × 54 in 157.5 × 137.2 cm
Frame included
Con...
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21st Century and Contemporary Julie Heffernan Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait as Decoy, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2005-2006
By Julie Heffernan
Located in Orange, CA
Self Portrait as Decoy, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2005-2006
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 62 × 54 in 157.5 × 137.2 cm
Frame included
Con...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Julie Heffernan Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait as Luminous Body, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2004
By Julie Heffernan
Located in Orange, CA
Self Portrait as Luminous Body, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2004
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 51 × 67 in 129.5 × 170.2 cm
Frame included
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21st Century and Contemporary Julie Heffernan Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait as Luminous Body, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2004
By Julie Heffernan
Located in Orange, CA
Self Portrait as Luminous Body, Oil on Canvas Painting by Julie Heffernan, 2004
Additional information:
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 51 × 67 in 129.5 × 170.2 cm
Frame included
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-Portrait (Lion Birth)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-Portrait as Throne
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-Portrait with Sanctuary
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spill (The Fall)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-Portrait as Mad Queen
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spill (Birds)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spill (Climbers)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spill (Ashdod)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Julie Heffernan Paintings
Materials
Oil
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