Julie Heffernan: World Without End

Self Portrait with Cargo, 2014

Exhibit Information

Julie Heffernan works with oil on canvas to explore various levels of societal chaos, environmental catastrophes and humankind’s role as nature’s keeper. The figures are heroically determined to gather and collect elements of a world that is falling apart leaving only time to answer if, and when, the bag will drop.

Writer Rebecca Solnit has written about Heffernan’s works as a “new kind of history painting” which extends beyond the known traditions of landscape paintings. All of these works remark on the nature of human society, the cycles of life and the possibilities of renewal through preservation of iconic treasures, traditions, and cultures. Her paintings carry heavy histories of the past as they try to valiantly reshape the future.

About the Artist

Julie Heffernan was raised in Northern California and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a MFA form the Yale School of Art. She is currently a professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

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