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Julie Heffernan Abstract 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.
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Artist: Julie Heffernan
Spill (Laocoön)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self-Portrait (Lion Birth)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self-Portrait as Throne
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self-Portrait with Sanctuary
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spill (The Fall)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self-Portrait as Mad Queen
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spill (Climbers)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spill (Birds)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spill (Ashdod)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Julie Heffernan Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

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