{"id":211258,"date":"2026-01-22T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=211258"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:03:15","slug":"julie-heffernan-featured-in-exhibition-at-hirschl-adler-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2026\/01\/22\/julie-heffernan-featured-in-exhibition-at-hirschl-adler-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Heffernan Featured in Exhibition at Hirschl &amp; Adler Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~heffernanj\">Professor Julie Heffernan<\/a> is among the artists featured in <em>Women&#8217;s Work: Beyond Craft and Convention<\/em>, a new exhibition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/show\/hirschl-and-adler-1-womens-work-beyond-craft-and-convention\/info\">Hirschl &amp; Adler Modern<\/a> that brings together works by women artists spanning more than 150 years of art history. On view from January 8 through February 6, 2026, the exhibition places Heffernan&#8217;s work in dialogue with artists including Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Catlett, Joan Snyder, Angela Fraleigh, and Elizabeth Turk.<\/p>\n<p>Heffernan paints large-scale narrative paintings that deal with issues like environmental degradation, climate change, and evolving notions of the self. Forty years ago, she started using a process in her work called image streaming that gave her a way to use some of that vast wealth of mental imagery within a mind to tell non-linear visual stories. Image streaming in combination with research opened up a way of painting that allows her to evolve a complex story as she paints. Using the materiality of paint itself, those stories can be embodied in form and tell us a deeper story, that engages complex issues using visual means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Julie Heffernan is among the artists featured in Women&#8217;s Work: Beyond Craft and Convention, a new exhibition at Hirschl &amp; Adler Modern that brings together works by women artists spanning more than 150 years of art history. On view from January 8 through February 6, 2026, the exhibition places Heffernan&#8217;s work in dialogue with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":209397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-210_art-design-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211259,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211258\/revisions\/211259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}