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JULIE HEFFERNAN

Selfportrait as a Quarry

Selfportrait as Infantas in Purgatorium II

Selfportrait with Falling Sky

Selfportrait with Talking Stones

Picking Up the Pieces

Selfportrait as Big World

Selfportrait as Great Heap

Statement

I grew up in the West, so am inclined towards mighty spaces. Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt’s grand landscapes make perfect sense to me. Our family’s version of a cheap vacation was camping in gorgeous National Parks such as Yosemite and Lassen. Like Cole, the places we visited got us as close to god as we could possibly imagine being. At the same time, they represented what we had lost. 

My recent work is focused on making sense of the world around me after calamities such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. We are slowly making our world unlivable, and I want to bring to the surface the destructive action, waste, and contamination that is generally invisible to us.  I need to imagine another way, to outfit myself with signs and banners that speak louder than I can, to envision how we might remake the world as it is slowly falling apart.
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Julie Heffernan at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, February 16-May 13, 2012

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Julie Heffernan Artist Talk at The Vermont Studio Center

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PRESS:
Huffington Post Arts & Culture - 10/14/2013 
Julie Heffernan: 'Sky is Falling' by John Seed

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Gallery Representations
P·P·O·W Gallery
Mark Moore Gallery
Catherine Clark Gallery

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