Mehretu biography

Summary of Julie Mehretu

Contemporary artist Julie Mehretu's extraordinarily grand scale works examine our communal connections with place and identity through abstracted landscapes rife with complexity.

Julie Mehretu - MoMA

Her work considers the sociopolitical history of specific locations via multi-layered and wildly chaotic mark-making alluding to architecture, geography, topography, autobiography, and iconography. These investigations culminate in radically innovative self-portraits of myriad spaces alongside our human intrusions into, and engagement with them.

Accomplishments

• Mehretu's impetus to explore our associations with place stems from her need to process real world events.

  By creating her own investigative space on the canvas where her feelings can play themselves out through art, she invites viewers to think about the past, present and future of various locations in ephemeral, cultural, emotional, and physical ways.

• The artist's work is noted for its signature visual language of do Julie Mehretu Biography – Julie Mehretu on artnet KUP