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Julie Heffernan (born 1956 in Peoria Illinois) is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as a new kind of history painting. Her imaginative landscapes feature such elements as exploding cities castoff gods and garbage and falling torrents of animals meteors and gemstones.David Cohen art critic of The New York Sun says of Heffernan’s art at a 2007 exhibition: These paintings are a hybrid of genres and styles mixing allegory portraiture history painting and still life while in title they are all presented as self portraits.Heffernan was raised in Northern California and lives in Brooklyn New York.