Description - Julie Mehretu by Christine Y. Kim
This full-scale retrospective monograph of Julie Mehretu's work traces the development of one of America's most celebrated abstract painters. Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accompanies a major mid-career survey of Mehretu's work. Designed to allow close viewing of Mehretu's vast canvases, it features lush reproductions of her paintings in their entirety, as well as numerous full-page details. The genesis for much of Mehretu's work lies in the black ink drawings she created in the late 1990s. From these early drawings and paintings, Mehretu moved onto large-scale canvases. These drawings and paintings are maplike and colorful, with diagrammatic elements that reflect her life experience. Each of these stages of her oeuvre is represented here, including works from her landmark exhibition Drawing into Painting, the twelve-panel intaglio, Auguries, and the paintings she created as a result of time spent in Africa and the Middle East. Accompanying these images are numerous essays by leading curators, scholars, and writers. Long overdue, this magnificent volume pays tribute to an artist whose work and process intermingle in a unique and important examination of painting, history, geopolitics, and displacement. AUTHORS: Rujeko Hockley is Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and Co-curator of the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Christine Y. Kim is Associate Curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. SELLING POINTS: . The definitive book on one of the most important abstract painters working today, covering almost 25 years of Julie Mehretu's work. . Julie Mehretu is an American artist best known for her densely layered abstract paintings and prints. Her large-scale paintings are inspired by global urban landscapes. 455 colour illustrations
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