Julie Heffernan is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. Julie earned her BFA from UC Santa Cruz and her MFA from Yale. She has had museum shows at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Palmer Museum, Mennello Museum, the LSU Museum of Art, the Witherspoon, the Mint and others. She’s has solo shows at PPOW, Mark Moore, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Megumo Ogita, just to name a few. She’s been in countless group shows from Forum Gallery, to Wave Hill, to the National Arts Club, to about hundreds more.

She has received an NEA Grant, a NYFA grant, a McDowell Fellow and a Yaddo Fellow and her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Norton Museum, The Palmer Museum, the Nation Academy Museum and many others. Her work has been written about in any art publication you can think of.

She also co-runs Painters on Paintings a blog that weekly features artists writing about a painting that informs or inspires them. She is also a Professor at Montclair University.

Brian stopped by Julie’s studio as she prepares for her September show at PPOW and they spoke about emotional painting, Al Held, her son’s music, Corbet being braggy and so much more.

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