Articles of ‘Julie Heffernan’

Danese Corey Gallery - New York

By Julie Heffernan
Doron Langberg’s recent work at Danese Corey Gallery brought to mind the words “hot mess,” but in the best of senses, describing something in attractive disarray, steeped in fluids and emanations, gushing forth. But what Langberg also messes with is us and our expectations about visual [...]

Julie Heffernan’s “image streaming” paintings show that intelligent, relevant and critically aware iconography is alive and well despite the fact that iconography, sadly, has long been a bête noire of postmodern semiotics. Her very personal, even grand paintings deliver Bonnardian multitudes of color and objects while they also recall Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque [...]