"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"Dispersion," detail (2002)
"Dispersion," detail, 2002
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 90 x 144 inches
Collection of Nicolas Rohatyn and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Photo by Erma Estwick
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
Ink and acrylic on canvas, 90 x 144 inches
Collection of Nicolas Rohatyn and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Photo by Erma Estwick
© Julie Mehretu
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
"Now I approach a picture out of a collection of information that comes to me, and through the experiment of projecting information and working with the language, the mark-making, painting the color and texture, and whatever other elements that I want to bring into the work."
-Julie Mehretu
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