Julie Heffernan was born in Peoria, IL and completed her MFA at Yale School of Art in 1985. She has been celebrated through numbers of solo and group exhibitions and many of her works became museum collections in UK and US. This is her second solo exhibition at MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY.

Heffernan’s elegant and grotesque paintings, reminding of baroque and rococo aesthetics, are sprinkled with elements of life and death against the unusual backgrounds such as wild jungles and old castles.

The paintings are collage of portraits, landscape and still life paintings created by the pancreatic artists who has deep comprehension of arts of all ages and cultures.

For the recent years, Heffernan has developed to multiple personal expressions in her paintings by describing such as segmented chambers containing each different dramas and nests created with random images. Although all bits and pieces are disconnected as a story, they organically united and create a unique harmony.

For this time, we are please to show seven new Heffernan’s paintings that would be next masterpieces.

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Opened dates: February 22 - March 19, 2011
Venue: MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY
Reception: February 22, 2011, 17:30 - 19:30