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)

Study for self portrait as soft target, 2008

Julie Heffernan

Study for self portrait as soft target, 2008

Sale Date: April 12, 2024

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Self-Portrait as Decoy, 2006–2010

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Decoy, 2006–2010

Sale Date: October 5, 2023

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Self-Portrait as Infantas in Pergatorium, 2000

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Infantas in Pergatorium, 2000

Sale Date: October 25, 2022

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Untitled #3, 1986

Julie Heffernan

Untitled #3, 1986

Sale Date: July 28, 2022

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Untitled #1, 1986

Julie Heffernan

Untitled #1, 1986

Sale Date: July 28, 2022

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Suzanne and Judith, 1987

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Suzanne and Judith, 1987

Sale Date: July 28, 2022

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Untitled, 1987

Julie Heffernan

Untitled, 1987

Sale Date: July 28, 2022

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The Great Wave, 1986

Julie Heffernan

The Great Wave, 1986

Sale Date: July 28, 2022

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Self-Portrait as Great Heap, 2009

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Self-Portrait as Great Heap, 2009

Sale Date: June 9, 2022

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Self-Portrait as Great Scout Master, 1998

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Great Scout Master, 1998

Sale Date: June 9, 2022

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Self-Portrait as Big World, 2008

Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait as Big World, 2008

Sale Date: June 23, 2021

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Accumulated Self Portrait I, 1993

Julie Heffernan

Accumulated Self Portrait I, 1993

Sale Date: June 15, 2021

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Study for Self-Portrait in Need of Perpetual , 2008

Julie Heffernan

Study for Self-Portrait in Need of Perpetual , 2008

Sale Date: December 9, 2020

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Study for Self Portrait as Fabulous..., 2008

Julie Heffernan

Study for Self Portrait as Fabulous..., 2008

Sale Date: December 9, 2020

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Study for Self Portrait as Gatherer, 2013

Julie Heffernan

Study for Self Portrait as Gatherer, 2013

Sale Date: September 30, 2020

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Untitled (Maze)

Julie Heffernan

Untitled (Maze)

Sale Date: August 19, 2020

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Untitled

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Sale Date: July 28, 2020

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Study for Self Portrait as Hobbyist, 2003

Julie Heffernan

Study for Self Portrait as Hobbyist, 2003

Sale Date: June 30, 2020

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Self Portrait as Decoy, 2005–2006

Julie Heffernan

Self Portrait as Decoy, 2005–2006

Sale Date: May 31, 2020

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Self Portrait as Many Lives, 1994

Julie Heffernan

Self Portrait as Many Lives, 1994

Sale Date: November 7, 2018

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Study for Self-Portrait as Stone Woman

Julie Heffernan

Study for Self-Portrait as Stone Woman

Sale Date: February 6, 2018

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LANDSCAPE WITH BERRY GARLAND, 2002

Julie Heffernan

LANDSCAPE WITH BERRY GARLAND, 2002

Sale Date: November 5, 2016

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STUDY FOR SELF PORTRAIT AS WORLD, 2008

Julie Heffernan

STUDY FOR SELF PORTRAIT AS WORLD, 2008

Sale Date: November 18, 2016

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An Accumulated Self Portrait I, 1993

Julie Heffernan

An Accumulated Self Portrait I, 1993

Sale Date: September 25, 2015

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