Julie Heffernan/꽃과 동물로 표현한

   

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Not Dead Yet 2007
oil on canvas, 68 1/2 x 60 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait with Men in Hats 2007
oil on canvas, 72 x 66 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Spill 2007
oil on canvas, 68 x 60 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as What Holds Up 2007
oil on canvas, 67 x 57 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Booty 2007
oil on canvas, 68 1/2 x 65 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Post Script 2007
oil on canvas, 67 x 56 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Raising Cain 2007
oil on canvas, 78 x 56 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Ornament II, 2007
oil on canvas, 68 x 65 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait at Subject, 2007
oil on canvas, 68 x 52 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Big House, 2006
oil on canvas, 67 x 58 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Sea Monster , 2006
oil on canvas, 67 x 58 inches

 

 

 

 

 

Study for Self Portrait as Dog Pile, 2006
oil on canvas, 15 x 16 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Quarry, 2000
oil on canvas, 70 x 68 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Divided Country, 2006
oil on canvas, 67 x 58 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN
Self Portrait as Tangled Nest, 2006
oil on canvas
68 x 57 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN
Self Portrait as Moth to Flame, 2004
oil on canvas
61 x 54 inches

 

 

 

 

 

JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait with Luminous 2004
oil on canvas, 51 x 67 inches

 

 

 

 

                   

                        JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Dead Meat 2005, oil on canvas, 82 x 81 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                               

                                         JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Decoy 2005, oil on canvas, 62 x 54 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                       

                              JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Fabulous Dropping 2005, oil on canvas, 78 x 54 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                             

                            JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Holes in my Head 2005, oil on canvas, 67 x 57 inches

 

 

 

 

 

                                

                                    JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Arms and the Men 2005, oil on canvas, 82 x 60 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

              

                                JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Harem Scarem 2006, oil on canvas, 56 x 82 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        

                                        JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Divided Country 2006, oil on canvas, 58 x 50 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 

                                  JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Fiery Landscape 2005, oil on canvas, 72 x 67 inches

 

 

 

 

 

                       

                                                          JULIE HEFFERNAN Self-Portrait as Agnostic II, 2003
                                                                                  oil on canvas, 68 x 55 inches

 

 

 

 

 

                           

                                                                      JULIE HEFFERNAN Self-Portrait in the Bedroom, 2003
                                                                                               oil on canvas, 67 x 68 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

               

                                 JULIE HEFFERNAN Self-Portrait as Thing in the Forest III 2003, oil on canvas, 58 x 66 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

                          

                                         JULIE HEFFERNAN Self-Portrait as Heavenly Body 2003, oil on canvas, 68 x 54 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                

                                             JULIE HEFFERNAN Everything that Rises 2003, oil on canvas, 78 x 82 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                            

                                                    JULIE HEFFERNAN Self-Portrait as Wunder Kabinet, 2003
                                                                              oil on canvas, 68 x 55 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heaven and Hell marks a change in Julie Heffernan’s paintings. In these new self portraits, she has replaced her dominant central figure with corporeal cornucopia-like bushes, vines, and bouquets; all intertwined with multi-vignettes and visions. In the painting, Self-Portrait with Holes in my Head, Heffernan wraps a lattice-like structure of intoxicatingly beautiful flowers stretching from the center to the periphery of the canvas. The central structure holds and hides lizards on the hunt and snakes wrapped through vines, vignettes of fiery war scenes, saints aglow with aura, and a cavern revealing an orgy scene resembling Ingres’ Turkish Bath. Each one of these scenes expands upon the painting as being a ‘self portrait’. The accumulated vignettes act like entries in a journal, telling and retelling dreamlike narratives through her own symbolism. Heffernan’s feminine miasma echoes that of surrealists like Leonora Carrington, creating new histories and narratives through her own personal ingrained iconographies.

Heffernan’s new paintings are involved with identifying and carving out the feminine space. Each of her subjects seems to be born out of a flat backdrop, much like a tapestry or modernized wallpaper. The paintings are at play with flatness and perspective, foreground and background. Heffernan tackles a painting problem much more akin with that of abstraction than representation. She then lets the viewer peak through the over grown jungle and the flat graphics, into portholes of private parties and power battles built between the beautiful and grotesque.

Julie Heffernan was born in 1956 and received her MFA from Yale University. She has had numerous one-person exhibitions around the country including a traveling exhibition Everything that Rises that will open at the Weatherspoon Museum of Art and will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalog containing essays by David Humphrey and A.S. Byatt in February. She has received a Lila Acheson Wallace award, NY Foundation for the Arts award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fullbright-Hayes Grant.

 

 

 

 

그녀의 그림 속엔 하나같이 금발의 미녀가 등장한다.

머리는 꽃으로 장식하고, 하체는 죽은 동물로 쌓여있다.

아름다움과 동시에 죽음을 상징하는 섬뜩함이 공존하는 그녀의 그림엔 신비로움으로 가득찬 상징성이 번득인다.

외모는 아름답지만 내부엔 동물적인 더러운 욕망이 가득한 걸 이 지적인 화가는 표현할걸까

중세의 그림 속에서나 나옴직한 우아한 차림새이지만 캔버스 중앙엔 불이 붙어 있거나

동물들이 가득하다.  천국과 지옥을 그렸다는 이 작가의 내면세계가 무척 궁금하다.

천국인 것 처럼 보이는 곳이 바로 지옥이라는 말인지

아님 천국과 지옥이 서로 종이 한 면 처럼 가깝다는 것인지......