Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to continue our artist-centric newsletter
IN FOCUS, where we take the time to delve deeply into one artist on the MGG roster at a time. Aiming to show a fuller picture of the breadth of our artists' careers, we will feature our favorite stories, podcasts, interviews, artists’ writings and videos from the archive, as well as new and upcoming projects.
Julie Mehretu’s work is informed by a multitude of sources including politics, literature and music. Most recently her paintings have incorporated photographic images from broadcast media which depict conflict, injustice, and social unrest. These graphic images act as intellectual and compositional points of departure; ultimately occluded on the canvas, they remain as a phantom presence in the highly abstracted gestural completed works. Her work continues to engage us in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior, and the psychogeography of space. Mehretu’s practice in painting, drawing, and printmaking equally assert the role of art to provoke thought and reflection, and express the contemporary condition of the individual and society. In November 2019, a retrospective of Mehretu’s work opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which will travel to The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The High Museum, Atlanta, and The Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis. Julie Mehretu is a co-founder of
Denniston Hill, an artist centered interdisciplinary arts organization supporting creative voices to help shape a just society.
Today, follow along as we explore the many facets that make up the artist’s oeuvre. ↓
