Julie Mehretu artist
from Julie Mehretu: Grey Area, 2009 Deutsche Guggenheim commission.
Layering and Erasure: An Introduction to Julie Mehretu by Joan Young.
History lingers… An archaeologist might excavate the traces of bygone times, uncovering relics and customs of past communities, in the strata of sediment that that settle amid the new
Rendering of cartographic and architectural drawings form the foundation of the layered compositions. She began to look at her mark making as signifiers of social agency, as individual characters.
