Julie Heffernan: 'Sky is Falling'

"If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced wither in Painting or Poetry." --Thomas Cole, in a letter to his patron Robert Gilmor, Jr., dated December 25, 1826 Julie Heffernan's exhibition "Sky is Falling" features 11 paintings that portray the artist's imaginative visions of a world that is blighted and chaotic yet somehow still transcendent. Each painting depicts a vignette that is an enchanted allegory of the artist's...