Julie Mehretu

©Julie Mehretu - Fugitive Breath Drawing, 2018 - Ink and acrylic on paper - Paper: 26 1/8 x 40 in. (66.4 x 101.6 cm) - Frame: 29 1/4 x 43 x 1 1/2 in. (74.3 x 109.2 x 3.8 cm) © Courtesy Marian Goodman

"Mehretu’ s work is informed by a multitude of sources including politics, literature and music. Most recently her paintings have incorporated photographic images from broadcast media which depict conflict, injustice, and social unrest. These graphic images act as intellectual and compositional points of departure; ultimately occluded on the canvas, they remain as a phantom presence in the highly abstracted gestural completed works. Mehretu’ s practice in painting, drawing and printmaking equally assert the role of art to provoke thought and reflection, and express the contemporary condition of the individual and society." © Courtesy Marian Goodman



© Julie Mehretu - Entropia 2004

"Julie Mehretu’s works engage us in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior and the psychogeography of space." © Courtesy Marian Goodman



© Julie Mehretu - Looking Back to a Bright New Future, 2003

"In exploring palimpsests of history, from geological time to a modern day phenomenology of the social, Julie Mehretu's works engage us in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior and the psychogeography of space." © Courtesy Marian Goodman