Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu Studio
New York City
September 29, 2010

On September 29th, join us at Julie Mehretu’s new Manhattan studio to visit with one of today’s most highly regarded abstract painters. Julie will share her own personal experience in creating her compelling large-scale, elaborate paintings, which are laboriously built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making in pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint.

In her paintings, Julie creates and communicates narratives using abstracted images of cities, histories, wars and geographies. As she suggests, these rich canvases act as “story maps of no location” enabling the viewer to interpret them as pictures into the imagined.

Julie is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery here in New York and shows at White Cube in London and Carlier Gebauer in Berlin. A solo exhibition of Julie’s work, Grey Area, is currently on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (May 14th – October 6th).

This event is for ICI Members only.