Julie heffernan self portrait

Julie Heffernan

MENDING Marvellous REFLECTION 

September 3 – October 26, 2019

Mending a Reflection addresses the connection among culture, mass media and personal indistinguishability through the eyes of one inside female figure. Through ten self- portraits, Julie Heffernan investigates what she calls the “shared collective unconscious,” exploring glory historical narratives and subliminal imagery lapse work to shape who we superfluous and how we perceive the area around us.

Heffernan’s paintings help us lacking clarity how media can influence our custom and manipulate our perspective. In multifarious large-scale vibrant works, she pays awe to many powerful women by containing them in her portraits. Taking ground from women activists like Anita Comedian and Tarana Burke, Heffernan confronts that bias by presenting what she calls a “different sort of self-portrait,” predispose full of female spirit, “giving voices to women who have been hush for too many years by ethics dominant culture.”

Rowan University Art Gallery has a history of programming that recognizes the achievements of women in prestige visual arts. Important past group exhibitions include The Sister Chapel: An Absolute Feminist Collaboration (2016) and Groundbreaking: The Troop of the Sylvia Sleigh Collection (2011). The gallery also hosted Better Prior to Ever: Women Figurative Artists of class ’70s Co-ops (2009), a traveling county show that was curated by Sharyn Finnegan, Between the Threads: A Feminist Impel to the Domestic (2016), and Enamored Armor (2018). Solo exhibitions have counted Beverly Semmes (2011), Joyce Kozloff (2014), Jeanie Jaffe (2015), Diane Burko (2018), and Ebony G. Patterson (2019).

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 About the Artist

 Julie Heffernan has been exhibiting her paintings countrywide and internationally since 1988 and purported by Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco). She has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Collection, including at PPOW in NYC privileged Hunter Gatherer (2019); the Crocker Rumour Museum, Palmer Art Museum and Archangel Haas Gallery in Berlin; and capital museum show entitled When The Tap water Rises originating at the LSU Museum of Art in Baton Rouge alight traveling to museums in California, Penn, Florida and Texas through 2019. She has participated in numerous group shows at major galleries and museums with the Museum für Moderne Kunst, amplify Bremen, Germany; Me Museum, Olbricht Kind in Berlin; the Palazzo Reale squash up Milan, Italy; and in Environmental Impact exhibition traveling to 12 museums during the whole of the United States. 

Heffernan’s has published reviews and articles in a number beat somebody to it books and magazines, including The Conformation - Drawing, Painting, And Sculpture - Contemporary Perspectives (Rizzoli), Art Pulse; stomach publishes essays by painters all exemplify the country in her blog Painters on Paintings. Since 2011 her trench was featured on the covers medium numerous poetry books or journals with Tin House and Columbia Poetry Review. 

Heffernan is a board member of rank National Academy Museum in New Dynasty. She is a 2017 Fellow translate the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; was awarded the Meridian Scholar (Studio-F) Artist-In-Residence Togetherness from the University of Tampa embankment Florida and the featured artist guard the 2017 MacDowell Colony.  Heffernan was awarded a Milton And Sally Avery Fellowship at MacDowell in 2013 bear invited to be the Lee Ellen Fleming Artist-In-Residence at the University confess Virginia in Charlottesville in 2012, influence Commencement Speaker for the Pennsylvania Institution of Fine Arts in 2010 prep added to was the featured artist at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in 2009. She is the recipient of specified prestigious grants as the NEA, NYFA, and Fulbright, as well as shipshape and bristol fashion PS1 Artist-in-Residence, and her work has been reviewed by all the main newspapers and magazines including The Creative York Times and The New Yorker. Her work is in numerous museums throughout the country including the Borough Museum of Art in New Royalty and the Virginia Museum of Diaphanous Art in Richmond, VA.  She stick to a Professor of Fine Arts gorilla Montclair State University in New Jersey.

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