Sky is Falling - Paintings by Julie Heffernan

This publication acts as a mid-career survey of the work of Julie Heffernan. In Julie's lush canvases, we find echoes of our past and warnings about our future. Stylistic references from throughout the history of painting coexist in these works with allusions to our current cultural fascination with consumption and the role it plays in our environment's devastation. For the artist, her paintings serve both as creative expressions and calls to action, "cries in the wilderness and my attempt to do something." Despite the foreboding subject matter, a unique power of Julie's art lies in her ultimate hopefulness, her belief in our power to eventually turn things around. Because, as Julie reminds us, "what we can imagine we can manifest." Karen Kienzle, Director