Posted: August 13, 2019

Julie Heffernan: As the Waters Rise
August 29 - October 11, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION:

August 29, 2019 | 4:30-7:30 p.m. 

Informal Sneak Peek with the Artist | 12 p.m.

Artist Talk in the Experimental Theater | 5:30 p.m. 

Julie Heffernan’s recent paintings create alternative habitats in response to environmental disaster and planetary excess. With rising waters, she imagines worlds in trees or on rafts in which undulating mattresses, tree boughs, and road signs guide the journey. Construction cones interrupt the landscape signaling places to stop, enter tiny interior worlds, and reflect on the human condition—its feckless activity, violence, failure, and redemption.

Julie Heffernan received her MFA in Painting from Yale and a BFA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Heffernan is in the collection of major museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She is represented by P.P.O.W in New York and Catharine Clark in San Francisco. Heffernan is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University.