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 painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.
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!
- 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… - 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…
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…
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. - Julie Mehretu
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
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…
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.
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making … - Julie Mehretu
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making …
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