You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.
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…
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time. - Julie Mehretu
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. - Julie Mehretu
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…
I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark. - Julie Mehretu
I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.
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…
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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