I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a h… - Julie Mehretu
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a h…
- Julie Mehretu
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. - Julie Mehretu
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children! - Julie Mehretu
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try an… - Julie Mehretu
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try an…
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it. - Julie Mehretu
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed… - Julie Mehretu
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed…
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painti… - Julie Mehretu
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painti…
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit. - Julie Mehretu
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is. - Julie Mehretu
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
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