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Source: Nancy Morrow, 785-532-1759, nmorrow@k-state.edu
News release prepared by:  Megan Wilson, 785-532-6415, media@k-state.edu

Friday, Sept. 19, 2008

VISITING ARTIST JULIE HEFFERNAN TO SPEAK AT K-STATE'S BEACH MUSEUM OF ART

MANHATTAN -- Visiting artist Julie Heffernan will present a lecture at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Beach Auditorium at Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Raised in North Carolina, Heffernan earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her master's in painting from Yale University. Her paintings combine 17th-century mastery with a surrealistic, postmodern sensibility. Her work expands notions of beauty as she explores issues relevant to women's lives and such events of Sept. 11.

She has exhibited regularly nationally and internationally. Her paintings have been exhibited at such venues as Kwangju, Korea's City Art Museum where her work was included in the 2000 Korean Biennial; the New Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Art, all in New York; the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin; the Mint Museum in North Carolina; the Palmer Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, and more. She is currently represented by the P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York and Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco.

Heffernan maintains a studio in Brooklyn and is an associate professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

The lecture is sponsored by the K-State department of art, the Beach Museum of Art and the women's studies program. It is supported in part by K-State student fine arts fee. More information is available by contacting Nancy Morrow at 785-532-1759 or nmorrow@k-state.edu.