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Julie Heffernan on El Greco, Painters on Paintings, Feb 5 2019 WEB
Julie Heffernan of Pierre Bonnard, Part II, Painters on Paintings, Feb 23 2018 WEB
Julie Heffernan of Pierre Bonnard, Part I, Painters on Paintings, Feb 18 2018 WEB
Julie Heffernan on Andrea Mantegna, Painters on Paintings, Sept 23 2016 WEB
Bonnard’s Other Avant Garde, ARTPULSE NO. 24 | VOL. 7 | 2015 PDF
Hope Gangloff at Susan Inglett Gallery, ARTPULSE NO. 23 | VOL. 6 | 2015 PDF
Julie Heffernan on Angela Dufresne, Painters on Paintings, Oct 6 2014 WEB
Julie Heffernan on Pierre Bonnard, Painters on Paintings, Jan 4 2014 WEB
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
PEARCE, MICHAEL: “Julie Heffernan’s Fountainhead, Her Annihilation, Her Eve, Her Eden,” MutualArt, July 29 WEB
2019
MARTIN, MALEA: “As the Waters Rise exhibit at Cuesta College encourages viewers to change how they treat our planet,” New Times, Oct. 3
NEWHALL, EDITH: “These are the fall shows you’ll want to check out on Philly’s art gallery scene,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, Sept.14 WEB
ARTDAILY: “Rowan University Art Gallery opens a solo exhibition of Julie Heffernan’s self-portraits,” Sept. 15 WEB
RILEY, LEXI: “Julie Heffernan: A Closer look at the artist behind When the Water Rises,” UHCL The Signal; 2/18 WEB
HEARTNEY, ELEANOR: “Art in the Age of Sexual Disruption,” Art in America, January, pp.19-21
ECKERSTORFER, JESSICA: “Julie Heffernan,” Paper Darts, Jan. 2 WEB
2018
"When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan," The University of Tampa, January 3, 2018. WEB PDF
HOBAN, PHOEBE: “Julie Heffernan’s Hunter Gatherer,” Riot Material, Dec 11 WEB
POWER, KIMBERLY: “Julie Heffernan,” Live Mag #15 WEB
DIJULIO, BETSY: “Heffernan’s Rising Water Paintings are Monumental,” Veer Magazine, Nov
CONIGLIO, KYLE: “Endless Cycles of Misogyny,” artcritical, Oct. 5 WEB
HARPERS BAZAAR STAFF: “The Best Female Art Exhibitions to See This Fall,” Harpers Bazaar, Sept 27 WEB
JOHNSON, PADDY: “Pop Erotica and 8 Centuries of Fantasy: NYC’s Fall Gallery Season is Its Best in Years,” Observer, Sept 20 WEB
SCOTT, ANDREA K.: “Five Female Painters to see in New York Art Galleries,” The New Yorker, Sept. 8 WEB
“Menello Museum of Art presents “When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan”,” artdaily; May 2 WEB
SMITH, ADAM: Julie Heffernan’s Recent Oil Paintings Shown in ‘When the Water Rises,’ hifructose, Sept. 10 WEB
Artdaily.org, “Palmer Museum announces opening of provocative new exhibition,” July 15 WEB
PALM, MATTHEW J.: “In her paintings, Julie Heffernan explores our relationship with a volatile environment,” Orlando Sentinel, March 19, WEB
MCLEOD, MICHAEL: “The Convergence of Art and Story,” Winter Park Magazine, Spring 2018 WEB
DUFFY, MAGGIE: “Review: University of Tampa exhibit examines human response to natural disasters,” Tampa Bay Times, March 2 WEB
GARCIA, BABEE: “Professor Artist Profile: Julie Heffernan,”The Montclarion, Jan 31 WEB
DUFFY, MAGGIE: “Changing Tides: When the Water Rises,” Tampa Bay Times, Jan.24; WEB
SALUSTRI, CATHY: “The Great Flood: Julie Heffernan’s When the Water Rises,” Creative Loafing, Jan. 30; WEB
2017
MILLER, ROBIN. "The water is rising in Julie Heffernan's painting at the LSU Museum of Art." The Advocate, May 23, 2017. WEB PDF
DUNNE, SUSAN: "Women Create Art Reflecting Their Lives, Thoughts in Benton Exhibit." Hartford Courant, April 8, 2017. WEB PDF
YODER, KACI. "LSU Museum of Art Exhibits Julie Heffernan's Climate Change-themed Paintings." 225 Magazine, March 2, 2017. WEB PDF
"Seeing With Our Own Eyes’ at Forum Gallery, New York." Blouin Artinfo, July 11. WEB PDF
HUCKBY, LAURA ROMER: "Beautiful, intriguing exhibits opening at San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts," Standard-Times, September 28. WEB PDF
BREEDLOVE, MICHAEL: “50 Things we love about Reynolda,” Aug. 30 WEB
BELLANTONI, RALPH: “A trilogy of art shows in Clinton probe perceptual topics,” USA Today; Jan.13 WEB
GRANY, DANIEL: “For Contemporary Artists, Joining the National Academy is Now Cool,” Observer, Oct 9 WEB
HEFFERNAN, JULIE: “The Official MacDowell Fellow Q & A,” Between Two Pines, March 29 WEB
SASONOV, MICHELLE: “Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum Kicks off the New Season, Phoenix New Times, Sept. 9 WEB
SHANE, ROBERT R.: “Temporal Nomads: the Scandal of Postmodern History Painting,” Brooklyn Rail, June 1 WEB
SMART, PAUL: “TERRA opens at Kleinert/James,” Smart Art/Woodstock Times, Oct.
HENDEL, JESSICA: “Climapocalypse Now: Heffernan at the Catharine Clark Gallery,” Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, Art and Culture Now, Jan. 2017 WEB
2016
SIERZPUTOWSKI, KATE. "Bright Environmental Paintings Focused on Survival by Artist Julie Heffernan." Colossal, October 25, 2016. WEB PDF
NYS DAMBROT, SHANA. “Top Ten 2015: Los Angeles.” Art Ltd. Magazine, Jan/Feb 2016. PDF
KNUDSEN, STEPHEN. “For the Love of Painting. A Conversation with Julie Heffernan.” Art Pulse, 2015. WEB PDF
YERMAN, MARIA G. “Wrath- Force of Nature at Wave Hill,” The Huffington Post, September 2, 2016. WEB PDF
AYERS, ROBERT: “Art Review: Julie Heffernan’s Prophetic ‘World Without End’ at Simon’s Rock,” March 17 WEB
OPATUT, SCOUT: “Et in Arcadia Ego at New Museum Lost Gatos,” Juxtapoz Magazine; June 8 WEB
2015
ABRAHAMS, MEGAN: “Julie Heffernan: Pre-occupations,” White Hot Magazine, June 2015 WEB
BUHMANN, STEPHANIE: “On Art: Far, Far Away,” The Villager, July 29 WEB
DAMBROT, SHANA NYS: “Top Ten 2015 Los Angeles,” ART LTD. Vol. 10; Jan/Feb. 2016 WEB
DUNNE, SUSAN: “Seven Deadly Sins at 7 Museums in CT and NY,” CT Now, July 8 WEB
ESPLUND, LANCE: ‘The 7 Deadly Sins’ Spread Across 7 Museums, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 26 WEB
FRANK, PRISCILLA: “Photographer Captures 100 Female Artists in their Homes and Studios” WEB
KAILL, ELLYN: “100 Portraits of Women Artists,” Feature Shoot, Feb 15 WEB
KNUDSEN, STEPHEN: “For the Love of Painting: A Conversation with Julie Heffernan,” Art Pulse, No. 22, Vol. 6, Year 2015 WEB
YERMAN, MARCIA: “Wrath: Force of Nature at Wave Hill,” Huffington Post, Sept 2 WEB
2014
ADARLO, SHARON: "An Abandoned Cubicle Complex Filled with Art." Hyperallergic, June 23. WEB PDF
HEFFERNAN, JULIE. "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life." Edited by Sharon Louden (print). PDF
ATKINS, JOE. "Julie Heffernan on Her Process, Self-Portraits, and the Reclining Nude." SubMerge Magazine (print), January. PDF
DOLEN, JEN: “Less Starving: Artists share their secrets on making a living from their work,” Public Art Review, Spring/Summer 2014
FRANK, PRISCILLA: “Artists Transform Abandoned Office Space into Surreal Artistic Wonderland,” June 27 WEB
J., M.: “Sammlung: Verfremdung,” Tip Berlin, 25.09- 08.10.2014, p.88
SILVER, CRAG: “Conceptual, Sensual, Degenerate: Your Summer Art Choices.” June 23, WEB
2013
SOLNIT, REBECCA: “Dandelion Clocks and Time Bombs,” Exhibition catalogue essay for “Sky is Falling;” June 2013
SEED, JOHN. "Julie Heffernan: 'Sky is Falling' Interview." The Huffngton Post (online), 2013. WEB PDF
SAMET, JENNIFER. "Beer with a Painter: Julie Heffernan." Hyperallergic (online), June 15, 2013. WEB PDF
WALLACE, REBECCA. "Two exhibits, two world views: Artists bridge past and present in detailed paintings and sculptures." Palo Alto Weekly (online), July 2013. WEB PDF
BEER, JONATHAN: “Artist Interview: Julie Heffernan,” Art Rated, Oct. 27
INDRISEK, SCOTT: “The 50 Most Discerning Young Collectors,” Modern Painters, July / August
MALAFRONTE, ALLISON: “Julie Heffernan, Let the Sky Fall,” Fine Art Connoisseur; October
PETRY, MICHAEL: Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, Thames and Hudson
"The cult of selfie, Sky is Falling: Paintings by Julie Heffernan." Sacramento News & Review (online), September 26, 2013. WEB PDF
2012
COZZOLINO, ROBERT (Editor): The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
ESCALANTE, GREG: “Julie Heffernan: Sky is Falling,” Juxtapoz Magazine, Dec.
MILLER, NANCY BEA: “The Collector’s Gaze, The Artist’s Eye,” Fine Art Connoisseur, Dec.
2011
JOY, CHRISTOPHER and KEETING, ZACH: “Interview with Julie Heffernan,” Gorky’s Granddaughter, WEB
SEED, JOHN: Nine Artists, Julie Heffernan, F. Scott Hess, Sarah McKenzie, Jon Swihart, Leonard Koscianski, John Nava, Rod Penner, Jerome Witkin, and Anne Harris, Blurb Books, 2011
WOOD, SURA: “Rack Room: Interview with Julie Heffernan,” Art Slant, New York, Fall 2011 WEB
OLIVANT, DAVID: “Picking up the Pieces: Julie Heffernan’s Honest Pessimism,” artcritical; Sept. 3 WEB
2010
SEED, JOHN: “Boy O Boy,” Huffington Post, May 21 WEB
WEST, LINNEA: “Julie Heffernan’s Constructions of Self,” Escape Into Life WEB
2009
ENHOLM, MOLLY: “Beauty and the Apocalypse,” Art Ltd., Mar/Apr. 2009
STACY, GREG: “Julie Heffernan at Mark Moore Gallery,” ArtSlant, Los Angeles, June 8 WEB
2008
KAYLAN, MELIK: “Quality? There’s the Rub,” The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 11
DANIEL KUNITZ: “The Grab-Bag Anthology,” The New York Sun, Thursday, June 5
PINCUS, ROBERT L.: “The paintings in Lux’s ‘Julie Heffernan’ hint at hidden stories,” The San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday May 11, 2008
ROSENBERG, KAREN: “Where Have All the Paintings Gone? To the National Academy,” The New York Times, Friday, May 30, 2008
2007
AYERS, ROBERT: “What’s in your Studio, Julie Heffernan?” Blouinartinfo; Nov. 13 WEB
COHEN, DAVID: “Beauty in Flesh and Fur - Julie Heffernan: Booty,” The New York Sun, Sept. 27, p. 15
HAASE, DONALD: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, Greenwood Publishing Co.
NAVES, MARIO: “Nothing Like the Old School,” The New York Observer, July 16
PROSE, FRANCINE: Catalogue Essay for “Booty” Exhibition
2006
JEFFREY DAY, “Fantastic Voyage”, The State, Columbia, SC; Friday, May 19, 2006; p. E18
“Julie Heffernan at the Columbia Museum of Art”, artdaily.com, Dec 10
2005
CRAIG, GERRY: “Mighty Real, Virtuosity makes a Comeback,” Metrotimes, May. 25
HAKANSON COLBY, JOY, “Dreamlike Images Combine in a Magical Exhibition in Birmingham,” Detroit News, May. 20
2004
GOMEZ, EDWARD M.: “Drawn to the Body,” Art and Antiques, January
KUSPIT, DONALD: The End of Art, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004; p.183
KUSPIT, DONALD: “Report from New York: Three Body Fantasists”, Art New England, Feb. March 2004, p.8-9
MEYERS, HOLLY: “Julie Heffernan,” LA Times, May 28, 2004
TEMIN, CHRISTINE: “Weird Science”, The Boston Globe, Feb. 27, 2004, p. C18
VINCENT, STEVEN: “Julie Hefferna at P.P.O.W.,” Art in America, Feb., 2004, p.123
2003
COHEN, DAVID: “Gallery Going,” The New York Sun, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003, p.18
HEFFERNAN, JULIE, The New Yorker, Reproduction accompanying an A.S.Byatt short story The Stone Woman, Oct 13, 2003, p.90
2002
CLINE, LYNN: “Not Perfect in Paradise,” The New Mexican–Pasatiempo, Aug. 2-8, 2002
HEFFERNAN, JULIE, Harper’s Magazine, Reproduction, Summer 2000, p. 31
HEFFERNAN, JULIE, The New Yorker, Reproduction accompanying an A.S. Byatt short story A Thing in the Forest, June 3, 2002, p. 81
LANDI, ANN: “The Real Thing? (Contemporary Realism Today),” ARTnews, Jun. 2002, pp. 88-91; reproduction p. 89
2001
ARTNER, ALAN G.: “Julie Heffernan’s Dept Self-Fictions,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 28
ELKINS, JAMES: Exhibition essay: “Strange Stories and the Balm,” PPOW and Littlejohn Contemporary, Mar. 2001
GOMEZ, EDWARD M: “Florida: Where Exuberant Dreams Often Sink Out of Sight,” nytimes.com, Apr. 8, 2001
HEFFERNAN, JULIE, Harper’s Magazine, Reproduction, June 2001, p. 15
LEVIN, KIM: “Galleries,” Village Voice, Apr. 3, 2001
MCGEE, CELIA: “Art Smart,” Daily News, Mar. 3, 2001
SILVERSTEIN, JOEL: “Julie Heffernan,” Reviewny.com, Apr. 12
WHITE, KIT: “Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn Contemporary and PPOW,” ARTnews magazine, Oct. 2001, pp. 172-3, reproduction
WIENS, ANN: “Tip of the Week: Julie Heffernan,” New City Times, Vol. 13, Apr. 1998
“Critical Eye,” W Magazine, Mar. 2001
WORTH, ALEXI: “Julie Heffernan,” Artforum, May 2001
2000
FINKELPEARL, TOM: “Kwangju Biennial, The Curator’s Gossip: Julie Heffernan,” Flash Art, Summer 2000, p. 99
GLUECK, GRACE: “Art in Review: Private Worlds,” The New York Times, Jun. 30, 2000, p. E37
GLUECK, GRACE: “A Rich Mix of Styles and Stimulations Under One Roof,” The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2000
KRAUSS, NICOLE: “Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn Contemporary and PPOW,” Art in America, Jan. 2000
LEVIN, KIM: “Voice Choices–Art: Galleries,” Village Voice, July 11, 2000, p. 96
TURNER, BROOK: “Kwangju Biennial, Korea: Calm after the Storm,” The Art Newspaper, No. 103, May 2000 (Reproduction)
YOOD, JAMES: “Julie Heffernan,” Artforum, Jan. 2000
1999
BISCHOFF, DAN: “A Matter of Taste,” Sunday Star Ledger, Apr. 4, 1999
GRAU, JANE: “So Ripe...,” The Charlotte Observer, Aug. 1999
JAMES, JAMIE: “Julie Heffernan,” The New Yorker, Apr. 12, 1999
JOHNSON, KEN: “Art in Review: Julie Heffernan,” The New York Times, Apr. 1999
JOHNSON, KEN: Art Guide: “Julie Heffernan,” The New York Times, Apr. 9, 16, 1999
KUSPIT, DONALD: “Going, Going, Gone,” artnet.com, WEB
LEVIN, KIM: “Voice Choices; Short List: Julie Heffernan,” Village Voice, Apr. 13, 1999
MANIACI, CARA: “Julie Heffernan,” NY Arts, Apr. 1999
NATALE, MICHELE: “Perfectly Flawed,” spectatoronline.com, Sept. 22, 1999
POLANSKI, G. JUREK: “Reviews–Julie Heffernan: New Paintings,” artscope.net WEB
REHAK, MELANIE: “Horse’s Mouth,” Bookforum, Fall 1999
1998
BRAFF, PHYLLIS: “Flora,” New York Times, Aug. 9, 1998
CAMPER, FRED: “Look Back in Irony,” Chicago READER, Feb. 27, 1998, p. 30
ESTEP, JAN: “Julie Heffernan,” New Art Examiner, May 1998, p. 48
HOGIN, LAURIE, “Heroic Measures,” New Art Examiner, May, 1998, pp. 18-23
KOROTKIN, JOYCE: “Julie Heffernan,” The New York Art World, Apr. 1999
1997
BOWYER BELL, J.: “Julie Heffernan,” REVIEW, Dec. 1, 1997
BUCHHOLZ, BARBARA: “Julie Heffernan’s Masterly Still Lifes,” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 3, 1997
CONELY, KEVIN: “Julie Heffernan,” The New Yorker, Dec. 8, 1997
HAWKINS, MARGARET, “Under the Influence,” Chicago Sun Times, Apr. 3, p. 28
MAXWELL, DOUGLAS F., “Julie Heffernan,” Review, Dec. 1, 1997
MURPHY, MARY: “Subversive Pleasures, Painting’s New Feminine Narrative,” New Art Examiner, Mar. 1997 (cover)
SCHRADER, STACEY: “Nothing Still About Life,” On the Issues, Winter, 1997
ZIMMERMAN, DAVID: “Heroism Reconsidered,” Arts and Antiques, Feb. 1997 WEB
1996
ARTNER, ALAN G.: “Open and Shut,” Chicago Tribune, Apr. 12, 1996
BARANDIARAN, MARIA JOSE: “Julie Heffernan at Peter Miller Gallery,” The New Art Examiner, May 1996
CAMPER, RED: “Strange Fruit (Paintings by Julie Heffernan),” The Chicago Reader, Apr. 12, 1996
HAWKINS, MARGARET, “Heffernan’s Still Lifes are Crawling with Messages,” Chicago Sun Times, Mar. 29, 1996
MELROD, GEORGE: “Openings,” Arts and Antiques, May 1996
NAHAS, DOMINIQUE: “Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn Contemporary,” Review, June
RAVEN, ARLENE: Catalogue, “Julie Heffernan,” Littlejohn Contemporary, Mar. 1996
SCHJELDAHL, PETER, “Heroism Addiction,” Village Voice, Aug. 6, 1996
THORSON, ALICE: “Still Lifes Comment on the Status of Women,” Kansas City Star, Feb. 9-15, 1996
1995
GRIMES, NANCY: “Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn,” Art in America, May 1995, p. 116
HAGEN, CHARLES: “In Connecticut...Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: ‘Inside Out,’” The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1995
HERFIELD, PHYLLIS: “Heffernan at Littlejohn,” The New York Review of Art, Jan./Feb. 1995, p. 16
KIMMELMANN, MICHAEL: “History Painting: Yes, Those Enormous Canvases,” The New York Times, Aug. 30, 1995
1994
KUSPIT, DONALD: Catalogue, “On Being a Woman: Paintings by Julie Heffernan,” Littlejohn Contemporary, Sept. 1994
1988
MORGAN, ROBERT: “Billboards,” Littlejohn-Smith, Artscribe International, Nov./Dec.
1985
MCGIVERN, SHAWN: “Disovering New Talent,” Boston Globe, June 1985