Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu's large-scale paintings, drawings, and prints mix elements of urban landscape with personal, energetic iconography. Mehretu sees her work as an investigation of identity and its links to community, power, and place, and combines found imagery with free gesture to place current and historical events in a new, unfamiliar context.
Mehretu has participated in numerous international exhibitions and biennials including most recently the Sharjah Biennial 12: the past, the present, the possible, UAE (2015) and Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany (2012). She has received international recognition for her work, including the American Art Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the prestigious MacArthur Fellows Award.
Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) lives and works in New York and is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery.
Read about the Mehretu’s newest series Corner of Lake and Minnehaha here, essay written by scholar and art historian Susan Tallman.
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Corner of Lake and Minnehaha, Julie Mehretu, 2022
Edition of 45 | 17-Run screenprint on Coventry Rag | 47" x 37" image size | 54 ¾" x 43 ½" paper size
Co-published by Highpoint Editions and the Walker Art Center
Edition sold out. Please contact Gallery Director for availability: alex@highpointprintmaking.org
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Entropia (review) by Julie Mehretu 2004
Edition of 45 | 32-color lithograph and screenprint on Arches 88 paper | image: 29" x 40" | paper: 33 1/2" x 44" | Co-published by Highpoint Editions and the Walker Art Center
Entropia: Construction by Julie Mehretu 2005
Edition of 30 | Lithograph with Gampi chine collé on Somerset Satin | image: 29 1/2" x 39 1/2" | paper: 40" x 49 1/2"