Julie Heffernan

(American, born 1956)

Julie Heffernan is a contemporary American painter known for her Baroque-inspired fantasy portraits and landscapes. Influenced by allegories, politics, and literature, Heffernan’s work explores a sensual fantasy realm where plants and animals coexist in harmony within a lush, plentiful atmosphere. In a reoccurring series, she paints women standing in full skirts made out of ripe fruit or blooming flowers. “When I look back on my work, I realize I was wrestling with my own psychic and physical growth,” the artist has said. “I realize now that when I was doing the flower skirts, they were about a burgeoning sexuality. […] Now I’ve shifted my work entirely to the tortured landscape. I’m looking around for new metaphors for my own present-day experience.” Heffernan notably employs an aesthetic based on the traditional oil painting techniques of Northern Renaissance artists—such as Hieronymous Bosch—while maintaining a wholly contemporary atmosphere that seems to come more from science fiction than art historical tropes. Born in 1956 in Peoria, IL, Heffernan went on to receive her BFA from the University of California Santa Cruz and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1985, where she worked alongside fellow figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage. Today, Herffernan’s works are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, among others. She lives and works in New York, NY.

Julie Heffernan Artworks

Julie Heffernan (59 results)

An Accumulated Self Portrait, 1995

Julie Heffernan

An Accumulated Self Portrait, 1995

Sale Date: September 25, 2015

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Accumulated Self-Portrait, 1995

Julie Heffernan

Accumulated Self-Portrait, 1995

Sale Date: September 25, 2015

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Self-Portrait as Decoy, 2006–2010

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Decoy, 2006–2010

Sale Date: September 17, 2015

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Study for Self Portrait as Specimen, 2006

Julie Heffernan

Study for Self Portrait as Specimen, 2006

Sale Date: March 3, 2015

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Self portrait as cook

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Self portrait as cook

Sale Date: July 26, 2014

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Study for thing in the forest, 2003

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Study for thing in the forest, 2003

Sale Date: July 26, 2014

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Study for self-portrait as stone woman, 2003

Julie Heffernan

Study for self-portrait as stone woman, 2003

Sale Date: July 26, 2014

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Accumulated self portrait #1, 2000

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Accumulated self portrait #1, 2000

Sale Date: July 26, 2014

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Study for self-portrait as bird catcher I, 2001

Julie Heffernan

Study for self-portrait as bird catcher I, 2001

Sale Date: July 26, 2014

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Study for self portrait as ornament, 2007

Julie Heffernan

Study for self portrait as ornament, 2007

Sale Date: June 12, 2014

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Study for SP as radiant host, 2006

Julie Heffernan

Study for SP as radiant host, 2006

Sale Date: June 12, 2014

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Deutschland Deutschland über alles, 1986

Julie Heffernan

Deutschland Deutschland über alles, 1986

Sale Date: June 12, 2014

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Self portrait as gorgeous tumor, 2001–2004

Julie Heffernan

Self portrait as gorgeous tumor, 2001–2004

Sale Date: May 15, 2014

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Self Portrait as Infanta in Royal Regalia, 2000

Julie Heffernan

Self Portrait as Infanta in Royal Regalia, 2000

Sale Date: September 25, 2013

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Self-Portrait as Robert Bly, 1994

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Robert Bly, 1994

Sale Date: September 25, 2013

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Self Portrait Setting Up Camp, 2010

Julie Heffernan

Self Portrait Setting Up Camp, 2010

Sale Date: May 17, 2013

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Accumulated self- portrait II, 2001

Julie Heffernan

Accumulated self- portrait II, 2001

Sale Date: January 27, 2013

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Self-Portrait as Robert Bly, 1994

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Robert Bly, 1994

Sale Date: December 13, 2012

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Self-Portrait as Ornament, 2006

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Ornament, 2006

Sale Date: September 21, 2012

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Self-Portrait as Tangled Nest, 2006

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Tangled Nest, 2006

Sale Date: September 21, 2012

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Accumulated self- portrait II, 2001

Julie Heffernan

Accumulated self- portrait II, 2001

Sale Date: June 24, 2012

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Accumulated self- portrait II, 2001

Julie Heffernan

Accumulated self- portrait II, 2001

Sale Date: May 6, 2012

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Study for Self-Portrait with Thorn in My Toe, 2012

Julie Heffernan

Study for Self-Portrait with Thorn in My Toe, 2012

Sale Date: May 11, 2012

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Self portrait as arms and the men, 2006

Julie Heffernan

Self portrait as arms and the men, 2006

Sale Date: May 10, 2012

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