Dominique Heffley
South Pasadena, CA
Dominique Heffley is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, CA.
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The owner of Heffley77 Illustration and Design, Dominique is a visual artist and professional graphic designer based in Los Angeles, CA.
Dominique’s work has been seen in galleries (see resume), in live theatre (set-projection), in print (children's book illustration), in the Pasadena Rose Parade (float design), in China (China Academy of Fine Art), in haunted houses (murals)—and even in graveyards (gravestone design).
Dominique received her BFA at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, explored traditional Chinese arts at the China Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou, China; and studied visual art with noted artist Joseph Gatto at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
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Drawing from abstraction, surrealism, modern cartoon, iconography, and expressionism, Dominique develops narratives through dreamlike shape-clusters and hallucinatory characters—friendly monsters, divine beings, playful animal constructs, and bizarre manifestations of the human condition—whose eyes draw viewers into their chimerical [OR fantastical] existence.
Her work is heavily influenced by artists that combine the surreal with abstraction, ranging from comic artists such as Saul Steinberg and Jim Woodring, to fantasy artists Patrick Woodroffe and Gary Becker.