Education
Yale University.
Yale University.
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 New York She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, at the University of California, Santa Cruz and, in 1985, an Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Artist Heffernan is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
Heffernan is the mother of two sons: Oliver, the eldest, and Sam.
In October 2013 she exhibited 11 paintings in her exhibition Sky is Falling, at the PPOW gallery, New New York